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2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Office Mac 2008 Not Worth Its Cost in Packaging, 2008-03-27
Microsoft's Mac unit did Mac users an injustice with Office 2008, bringing the package down to the functionality of Apple's iWork '08. Stripping VBA and the data analysis toolpak out of Excel is inexcusable, but it's even worse. Many of the Upgrades Microsoft made from Office XP to Office 2003, let alone Office 2007 are not included (e.g., right indent in Excel). Word and PowerPoint also seem more like Office XP as well. Sure formatting palettes are nice, but that's just repacking functionality, not improving it.
As bad as the stripped down Office 2008 is, it gets worse. PPT, Word, and Excel crash so often on my new Leopard MacBook Pro, that I use iWork for most of my work and switch to the Windows version of Excel via VMWare Fusion when tasks demand them. I would suggest staying with Mac 2004 until Microsoft does an upgrade to the Office Suite that does more than change its packaging.
 It's about time Microsoft Office for Mac's updated, 2008-03-27
this is a great product -- sans microsoft outlook! it works much more seamlessly opening/reading office files than iworks!
 Typical Microsoft, 2008-03-26
Typical Microsoft program, slow to open, needed updates immediately, occasional computer freeze but widely accepted software and nice features over Office 2004 for Mac. Really do like Entourage.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Just say "NO", 2008-03-25
MS Office 2008 is pure evil. Filled with quirks, problems and bugs, it is not a good replacement for any previous version of Office for the Mac. Just say "NO!". How this bug-filled abomination was ever released is a mystery.
Eventually, Microsoft will get this right, but it's going to take a major update. If I could easily do so, I would revert to Office v.X which ran beautifully and never gave me an issue.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
One step forward, three steps back, 2008-03-25
Just took delivery of a new 8-core Mac Pro with 10GB of memory. Thought it was time to try out the "new" Office 2008 for Mac with the new machine. I primarily use Word and Excel to create and edit documents and spreadsheets throughout the day. Well, both applications "look prettier", once they finally load. But using them is SLOOOW and painful. Just switching between Word and Excel requires a coffee break, and these are running on what amounts to be a supercomputer! I stuck with 2008 for one day, but quickly realized that it was taking me 2-3 times as long to do anything as it would in 2004.
I've removed Office 2008 from my Mac Pro and re-installed Office 2004. 2004 is blindingly fast on the Mac Pro.
Only Microsoft could pull off releasing a "new" version of an application that is 2-4x as slow as it's predecessor. Keep up the good work, Microsoft!
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