Meh, I'd rather keep my Microsoft stuff shoved in a separate box. Like Parallels running Windows XP, then plop a copy of Office 2007 inside it. I feel dirty as it is. 
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Microsoft Begins Shipping Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition
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That good on other Macs
I have a 1st gen Intel Mac Pro 3 GHz with 13 GB of ram & the speeds I get with Excel 2008 makes it very unusable. MS Office 2008/2008 are both downgrades in usability from MS Office 2003/2004. I won't say anything about what others call bloat because some of those features are actually useful to others as well as to me.
Hopefully Office 2010 in general & Excel 2010 will once again prove to be useful. I can not depend on Apple to keep allowing me to run my PPC apps on my Intel Macs.
I have an iMac with 8GB of RAM and I can't believe how crappy Office 08 runs
However, in our experience, the other office suites (OO, AbiWord, etc...) can't produce the documents we need in .doc format without formatting issues.
What a piece of *!%&* MS Office is.
ugh
I have a 1st gen Intel Mac Pro 3 GHz with 13 GB of ram & the speeds I get with Excel 2008 makes it very unusable. MS Office 2008/2008 are both downgrades in usability from MS Office 2003/2004. I won't say anything about what others call bloat because some of those features are actually useful to others as well as to me.
Hopefully Office 2010 in general & Excel 2010 will once again prove to be useful. I can not depend on Apple to keep allowing me to run my PPC apps on my Intel Macs.
Is this MacRumors or MSRumors? MS stories sure are dominating the front page today......
And to vrillusions: NeoOffice > OpenOffice
And to vrillusions: NeoOffice > OpenOffice
Office is a great suite for Windows, but not for Mac. It's bloated, slow and just terrible—nothing like Office 2007 for Windows. I would be so happy if Apple manages to support .doc more properly. Although I personally don't want to use .doc anymore, my university still doesn't accept other types or at least pdf.
I would like to switch completely to iWork, but it's just not possible at this point.
I would like to switch completely to iWork, but it's just not possible at this point.
Is MS going to be the exciting company in the near future
As I said before Apple & the Mac has been getting more boring & less exciting. MS is doing these things to get Apple on its toes & make some real changes. Even OS 10.6 Snow Leopard has little to make one excited. I try to run it each day, but it seems to be lacking something that is definately in 10.4.11 & is finally getting into OS 10.5.8. PPC users have nothing to worry about missing. The $25 & free shipping was much better than the $29 + shipping from Apple.
IF MS can't get Apple to do something new & exciting who can.
As I said before Apple & the Mac has been getting more boring & less exciting. MS is doing these things to get Apple on its toes & make some real changes. Even OS 10.6 Snow Leopard has little to make one excited. I try to run it each day, but it seems to be lacking something that is definately in 10.4.11 & is finally getting into OS 10.5.8. PPC users have nothing to worry about missing. The $25 & free shipping was much better than the $29 + shipping from Apple.
IF MS can't get Apple to do something new & exciting who can.
Do you all have to turn spaces off to use office? I find it completely unusable, so I'm using Latex for everything at the moment.
Didn't Microsoft have a problem with Zune's counting the date wrong and they all started failing. Someone buy a calendar and send it to Redmond please!!
Microsoft today announced that it has begun shipping Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition, replacing the previous Standard Edition and Special Media Edition with a single package offering the complete Office suite with support for Microsoft Exchange included.Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition carries a recommended retail price of $399.95 for the full version and $239.95 for an upgrade version. The existing Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition, which offers the basic Office components but lacks a number of advanced features, continues to be offered at a suggested retail price of $149.95.
Hmmm now I want Exchange support and an Office suite do I a) spend $399.95 on Microsoft Office or do I b) buy Snow Leopard with integrated Exchange Support and iWork 09 for $110. And they Apple has extortionate prices.
MSN 8 is in Beta and has been for about... too long a time. Office was the last major program to be coded on Intel when Apple switched over, I know they want you to use windows instead to use their programs but its only creating more of a bad name for themselves being shoddy programmers.
Try a little earlier
I thought that you meant MS-DOS compared to CP/M.
Shhh! It's all part of their "Roll Back the Millennium" marketing plan. They hope to recapture the glory days of Windows 95!
I thought that you meant MS-DOS compared to CP/M.
so i have the special media edition (from what i gather its the same as the standard edition with extra stuff you dont have to install) do i have to pay for Business to get the entourage update? or will MS push a SP for the existing Standard and Media users?
An image is an image
I guess that I do too much accounting work. There is no pace to put images on most forms. Actually my Nebraska form has several images on it that work just like clipart. For that matter my signature is nothing more than an image that is again just like clipart.
I'm glad to hear that someone uses these features as built. One person's useful feature is another person's bloat. Its good that you remind me that I actually use clipart in one form or another.
I guess that I do too much accounting work. There is no pace to put images on most forms. Actually my Nebraska form has several images on it that work just like clipart. For that matter my signature is nothing more than an image that is again just like clipart.
I'm glad to hear that someone uses these features as built. One person's useful feature is another person's bloat. Its good that you remind me that I actually use clipart in one form or another.
I had hoped it would include a MS Access or something similar.
I don't have to deal with Access too much at my job, but enough to ask, is there software that opens an Access Database? Just curious.
I don't have to deal with Access too much at my job, but enough to ask, is there software that opens an Access Database? Just curious.
Only Access can really work with access databases a program that Microsoft does not seem interested in converting to the mac.
$399.95!!!!!!!!!
Why does everyone believe software suites should be cheap. Office is a robust suite of software that does more than your homework. Office 2008 has been great at my work with over 12,000 machines with a 2003 exchange server backend.
Office 2008 should be faster. It also needs to do something more to warrant the higher price besides just being compatible. It also should either have a better Mac experience or just copy Office 2007. It is neither.
seems nice, and i'm glad to see that microsoft is still working on mac products, but that price is still outrageous though
I agree. I think it would sell better if it was a clone of the Windows version. Has the Mac BU ever given a reason for creating such akward software in relation to Office 2007?
$399.95 for an office suite ???? This is embarrassing
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2008/shop-now.mspx
It's $150 for the productivity suite. The one you refer to is a business class suite.
Or XP. Except no-one does because there weren't many tech blogs around then to blow up a complete non-issue.
I have no problem with MS charging whatever they want to for their "suite". But please make the thing perform better. It is still brutally slow.