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1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 If you like Vista, buy this too!, 2008-05-31
this software has the most bugs of anything I've ever used. Use the windows version. Don't even think about buying this one.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Nice Microsoft Suite, but iWork is Better, 2008-05-30
This is a hug improvement over the last Office suite by Microsoft, and it has a nice feel to it, like Office 2007 for Windows. It's great because documents worked on with Office 08 are compatible with iWork, Open Office, and WIndows versions of Office. I used to love Office 08, but than gave iWOrk a try, and I really find my self being a lot more creative on iWork, plus I have yet to have issues with it, while with Office 08, it has closed twice unexpectedly (but I'm used to it, I used to be a Windows user). I would give this software a 5/5 if they had brought Access to Mac's, but once again, Microsoft failed to do so; that's ok though, cause that's why FileMaker exists.
1 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Buyer Beware, 2008-05-30
Bought the 2004 version just to get the upgrade when Amazon and Microsoft where promoting this. It never arrived, and I can get no satisfaction from either Microsoft or Amazon. There appears to be no way to contact an actual living person for customer complaints at Amazon! Better to buy products from retail outlets like the Apple store, the support there has always been great.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 What's changed?, 2008-05-28
If you already own office 2004, there is really no reason to waste your money on an upgrade to 2008. There really isn't much of a difference. The interface looks a little different (the window is a different shade of grey and some buttons are in different places), but that's about it.
According to Microsoft, there are only three new features in 2008: Native support for Intel-based macs, native support for Open XML formats, and "A redesigned user interface and powerful new tools." My question is, where are the new tools? If you've used Office 2007 on a PC, then you know all about the great changes that have been made, and like me, you probably hoped to see them in the new version for mac. Most of them are either missing or drastically different than their PC counterparts.
The biggest change in 2007 was the Ribbon, which is a wonderfully efficient way to organize tools and commands. Rather than include this tool in 2008, Microsoft tried to trick us with the "Elements Gallery," which is just a fancy templates gallery. It's a flashy new way of giving us what we already had -- templates, that's all. I would have thought that the formatting pallet could have easily been altered to match the system of tabs on the Ribbon, but Microsoft decided not to do this. The formatting pallet is essentially the same as it has always been.
There are a few nice features which have made it from the PC version to the Mac version, though. Office 2008 includes nice citation tools, for example. Other tools, however, are there but aren't quite right. Office 2008 doesn't have the same pre-defined styles as 2007, or the same themes. Some differences are small but strange. In both the Mac and PC versions for instance, Cambria and Calibri are theme fonts; in 2007 Calibri is the Body font and Cambria the Headings font. In 2008 these fonts are switched -- Cambria being the Body font and Calibri being for Headings.
All in all, Office 2008 is adequate at best. Having had high expectations because of Office 2007 for PC, I was let down. The bottom line is that if 2004 runs well on your mac (as it did on mine), don't bother with 2008. It's just a big waste of money for a mediocre product.
1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Microsoft Office 2008 for MAC, 2008-05-27
It is all I expected. I have been very satisfied with the program and would recommend it to any MAC user. The Power Point application is excellent and works well with MAC and I am very pleased.
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