You can visit the online Apple Store. You can visit an Apple Store in your neighborhood. Or you can visit any of the authorized Apple retail locations worldwide carrying Apple products.

But wherever you go, you’re going to want to be among the first to upgrade to Mac OS X version 10.1. The first major upgrade to Apple’s next-generation operating system, Mac OS X v10.1 is expected to be on dealer shelves this weekend and is available for order from the online Apple Store right now.

The best OS for your digital lifestyle, Mac OS X v10.1 lets you:

And it’s a perfect 10.

We refer, of course, to Office v. X for Mac—the newest, most comprehensive, and most compelling version of Microsoft’s award-winning productivity suite that was designed specifically for (and will run exclusively in) Mac OS X.

Fully native, Office v. X for Mac offers customers four powerhouse applications—Entourage X, Excel X, PowerPoint X, and Word X—and even includes MSN Messenger 2.1 for Mac.

What makes Office v. X for Mac such a suite deal?

If you use Mac OS X v10.1 and can’t wait to try the latest version of Microsoft Office, we have some good news for you.

Microsoft invites you to test drive Microsoft Word X. The free download allows you to preview the power and elegance of Word X and sample how splendidly Microsoft has incorporated the key components of Mac OS X, including the stunning Aqua user interface.

The Word X preview also lets you experience some of the new and improved features you’ll find in Word X, such as “clear formatting” and the ability to select multiple sets of text for easier formatting and spell checking.

You can download the Word X preview right now, but you will need to install Mac OS X v10.1 before you can use it.

And that future unfolds in Mac OS X.

Taking the stage during Apple’s keynote address at Seybold, Adobe’s Senior Vice-President for Professional Publishing Bryan Lamkin announced Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2.0 and demonstrated a future version of Adobe GoLive designed expressly for Mac OS X.

Both Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2.0 offer native support for Mac OS X, new interfaces that take advantage of the power and beauty of Aqua, and tighter integration with other Adobe design products.

You’ll find more information about both products on the Adobe site. And if you’d like to order the products, we’re already accepting pre-orders for Illustrator 10 (due to ship later this year) on the online Apple Store, and will be taking pre-orders for InDesign 2.0 later this year, closer to the product’s anticipated ship date.

Here’s sweet news for developers of just about every stripe: Corel Graphics Suite 10 for Macintosh is now available, offering an impressive collection of software designed specifically for Mac OS X.

The design suite’s main applications—CorelDRAW 10, Corel PHOTO-PAINT 10, and Corel R.A.V.E.—provide a comprehensive range of innovative drawing, image-editing, and vector animation tools. But in addition to these, designers receive CorelTRACE 10 (for converting raster images to vector images), select KPT plug-ins, Canto Cumulus Desktop LE 5.0, Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0, 2000 clip art images, over 500 stock photographs, and over 2000 TrueType and Type 1 PostScript fonts.

And like so many other Macintosh software products, Corel Graphics Suite 10 for Macintosh is available from the Apple Store.

Where’s the best place to see Mac OS X v10.1 in action?

Any Apple retail store. We have eight stores open today and will have more by the end of the month, and every single Mac in those stores will be running Mac OS X v. 10.1.

So whether you want to try iDVD 2, Word X, iMovie, Quicken Deluxe 2002, iTunes, Adobe Acrobat Reader 5, Macromedia Freehand 10, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 from Aspyr, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5.1, Aladdin StuffIt Deluxe, FileMaker Pro, or many of the other Mac OS X applications already shipping from leading third-party developers, visit an Apple store in your area in the upcoming weeks and let one of our knowledgeable staff show you what you can do with Mac OS X v10.1.