Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition

List Price: $149.95 Discount Price: $128.99

Features:

• Streamlined user interface runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs
• Open XML file formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and other features that result in compatibility and file fidelity
• Professional design is within your power with hundreds of new customizable templates and suite-wide themes, SmartArt graphics, and the new Publishing Layout View in Word 2008
• My Day keeps you connected to all of the day's action. Command your calendar, tackle your tasks, and simplify your day
• Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage

Customer Reviews:

Yet another different scheme to learn [Posted on 2008-05-03]
I've used Microsoft Office--both Windows and Mac versions--continuously for approximately twenty-years. I will continue to use it. Unlike other Microsoft products that break daily, Office is solid. However, during those same twenty years I've been continuously annoyed to find with each new version or upgrade I've had to learn a different (and often counter-intuitive) interaction scheme. The 2008 Mac version is of this ilk. I've just spent six-months learning a much different Windows Office 2007 scheme, and--being hopelessly optomistic--I hoped to find the same scheme in Mac 2008. It isn't. In fact, it looks nothing like its Windows counterpart. Use it. It's reliable. But be prepared for yet another face to learn.

Horrible upgrade [Posted on 2008-05-03]
Office 2004 was much more reliable and the fact that the new version has less features is ridiculous. Microsoft has finally lost me as a customer completely. I recently purchased iWork and it is performing much better. It may not be as robust as Microsoft, but it suits my needs and doesn't crash constantly like Office 2008.

Slow and kludgy [Posted on 2008-05-03]
All components are slow and kludgy. Excel loses formulas and recent files. Update doesn't cange anything. luckily the older versions still work.

So far so good [Posted on 2008-05-04]
I've read a lot of negative reviews but really, honestly, I don't see it. It hasn't crashed on me, ever. I run an intel-based macbook pro with 2gig ram which isn't the best out there, but it's not bad. I just got the update tonight, so if it was going to crash on me it would have. Word refuses to copy-paste some graphics from web browsers and such which is a bummer, but I found that it won't do it in 2004 either (running 2004 on school machines still). Never used excel much except for budgeting, I wasn't impressed with the budget template but I never really am. Entourage is working fine, all except I have it set to sync with iCal and it doesn't seem to be syncing, but I don't know how to stimulate that yet. It's not running insanely slow or anything. The machines running 2004 at the school run slower so far. I don't use powerpoint really. Overall I think that office compatibility is a necessity in this day and age and I've got that with 2008. I'm keeping it.

Stick with 2004. Avoid the Ice Age that is 2008. [Posted on 2008-05-05]
I'm a scientist and therefore need to use programs such as Excel frequently to crunch my data. I had hoped that Excel 2008 would improve the speed of, say, cut and paste operations on files with 3,000 or so rows. Boy was I let down. An operation that might take two seconds in Excel 2004 would take twelve seconds in 2008. That's going from slow to glacial, in my opinion. So much for Intel native speed! I have a MBP Core Duo 2.16 GHz.

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