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5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Meh!, 2008-02-17
On the plus side, Office 2008 looks a little better than 2004 did. On the minus side, it runs quite a bit worse. The sole reason I bought Office 2008 was for the Universal Binary, so it would run natively on the "new" Intel Macs. But it runs just as slowly as 2004 ran under Apple's Rosetta emulator! It also crashes a LOT. Word & Excel crash more than once per hour of active use. Hopefully, Microsoft will fix the crashes with updates, but I'm not optimistic about the performance improving.
Unless you need Office 2008 for external reasons, such as your school or business requiring it, I don't recommend it. If you already have 2004, stick with that. If you don't have Office, get iWork (Apple iWork '08) instead. If you're still curious about Office 2008, go to the Apple store and try it out. It's installed on all the demo machines. Then you can decide for yourself if the positives outweigh the negatives.
 great new features, could use a bit more, 2008-02-17
Been waiting for the "docx" format for Mac for a while - the new separation of style from content works great, is kind of like LaTex for dummies. And features like the new citation manager are dreamy. Biggest issue is that some of these don't follow through - making new automated styles from the stored data (for example, humanities endnote type citations) seem impossible (I found some crazy coding online that might do what I want, but I'm not sure how to use it - this should be easy to do from within the interface!) or master documents (for combining and cross-referencing several chapters across separate documents) are either not possible tasks (despite that they should be) or nowhere to be found in the help, online or otherwise. I know this must be possible, given how they designed this, but I can't find how to do it! C'Mon guys, make it easy to do, or at least easy to figure out how....
I usually wait to upgrade, so was worried about crashing, and have had a small number when trying to do things like cross-referencing, but overall, I'm very happy. I hope they implement these changes soon....
good but heavy and sluggish, 2008-02-17
I installed 2008 principally because of the new Entourage database that promised to be a worthy upgrade from Office VX. No major problem at installation and import of the database from old version worked OK. But it is obvious that all the programs are heavy and sluggish, specially the new excel.
Seems that Microsoft has not yet learned how to lighten the load and make nimble programs.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Typical Microsoft Product, 2008-02-16
Microsoft consistently puts out products that are not as good as they could be, so they can incorporate what they left out in later versions.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 A huge disappointment so far..., 2008-02-16
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition I was eagerly awaiting new features and better performance with Leopard. To begin with a flaw makes registering your software online impossible. I had to call...they acknowledged it was a problem. I use Excel for so many things. This new version would crash every few minutes during use to the point that it wasn't worth using. I checked and it is a common complaint. Some view options turn on and off by themself. Office app saved documents don't remember window size or location when reopened. Finally so far, Word and Excel are very slow...much slower than Office 2004! I took the plunge and purchase iWork 08 and I'm quite happy with the Excel compatible spreadsheet. I thought Mac versions of Microsoft products were usually better than their Windows counterparts. If so, I feel sorry for Windows users. Oh yes, I'm not one to usually nitpick or complain a lot.
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