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Microsoft Launches Mac Office 2008

When are they going to ship upgrades?

I purchased Word 2004 for my wife recently. I registered for the 2008 upgrade but when I checked the status today it says backordered and will ship in March! Come on. This is a joke. The order along with countless others has been in for more than a month and they are not shipping until March!
 
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stoutboy1 said:
You're not to late at all. You have until Feb 14th 2008 to submit your info for the upgrade. You can still get the form here.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/promotions/supersuitedeal/default.mspx

Expect a long wait. I submitted my form the 15th of November and the status says backorderd and that it'll ship march 3rd. Oh well, I made $80 upgrading. Thanks Microsoft.:D
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Eligibility Requirements
If you acquire a qualifying Microsoft® Office 2004 for Mac product listed below between November 1, 2007 and January 14, 2008 you are eligible to
receive Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition for the cost of shipping and handling ($6.99 US/ $10.00 CDN), plus applicable taxes.


Correction: I missed this part: "and along with it, office 2004"
 
Roy said:
Eligibility Requirements
If you acquire a qualifying Microsoft® Office 2004 for Mac product listed below between November 1, 2007 and January 14, 2008 you are eligible to
receive Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition for the cost of shipping and handling ($6.99 US/ $10.00 CDN), plus applicable taxes.


Correction: I missed this part: "and along with it, office 2004"
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Are you just adding more info or are you correcting me? The person stated that they got their computer and software for christmas. That said I assumed they got it before January 14th. If you bought it before january 14th you can submit your info before feb. 14th. But thanks for the clarification.

I see your correction now. You still have good info there anyway.
 
I definitely feel the same. I did not see any acceptable speed increases in the Apps. Also, Excel 08 corrupted its own Normal template, leaving me unable to view, edit, or print Excel sheets. I tried uninstalling '08 and downgrading back to '04, but the uninstaller failed. After 3 hours of installing/uninstalling, I got no where. I then tried to put '04 back on...the Normal template was still corrupted. HOW is this possible!?

I'm a network administrator and I run Windows Server boxes all day long...and it never ceases to amaze me the amount of crap that MS releases. My job wouldn't exist to the same extent if Microsoft wasn't so flawed.

I have now removed all MS software from my Mac. I'm a complete and 100% convert to iWork 08. There are limitations, especially as my company is dependent on Sharepoint, etc. Thankfully I have Remote Desktop access for the things I have to do on Windows. But, I wouldn't trade my iWork in now for Office...now that I'm used to it. It just works, and I'm SO tired of having to "trick" Word etc. into printing something the way it should have been in the first place.

I refuse to reinstall Office.

sethro said:
I've been using both Microsoft Office 2008 and Microsoft Office X, but I find Microsoft Office X a lot faster. Office X has much faster load times on my Macbook and uses less resources than Office 2008.

I don't mean to take a jab at Office 2008, it has a new UI and much more features than any other Office release for the Mac platform, but I was expecting more from a Intel native release. Anyone else feel the same?
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As a tax accountant, coming home and trying to use the office 2008 excel on the mac, seems much more cumbersome than it's windows counterpart, which I'm forced to use everyday.

Granted, I'd still love to be able to use a mac at work and would dream of running office 2008 :D
 
come to think about it all the apps do still tend to take a bit to load, which is weird cuz when I first installed Office 2008 they opened fast. But after restarting there almost as slow as 2004
 
nomoredinobones said:
Definitely one to avoid for students. How am I supposed to write my thesis without EndNote compatibility?
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Endnote indicate they are working on a compatible version.
Word 2008 was released in January of 2008. No current versions of EndNote are compatible with Word 2008 due to changes in the way third party addins are supported. Until we develop a version that works directly with Word 2008, you would need to run "Unformat Citations" with Word 2004 (or Word X) and save the documents as RTF files (rather than .doc or docx files) and use the "Scan Paper" feature to work with Word 2008. if you no longer have Word 2004, contact our technical support team to assist in unformatting your citations. When we develop a version of Endnote that has CWYW compatibility with Word 2008, this page will be updated.
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http://www.endnote.com/support/en_wpchart_mac.asp

SL
 
It was about 6's for me as far as speed on my 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac 24" 2GB RAM and comparable MacBook...definitely no noticeable speed increase. I liked the new GUI in Word and Excel, but Entourage is just a freaking mess compared to the Apple Apps.

I wish to all heaven I hadn't put my office on a Windows Server 2003 box and gone with OS X Server with a 2nd MS Terminal Server for MS-based apps. Grrr...

dr_lha said:
Slower than Office 2004 under Rosetta?
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sethro said:
I've been using both Microsoft Office 2008 and Microsoft Office X, but I find Microsoft Office X a lot faster. Office X has much faster load times on my Macbook and uses less resources than Office 2008.

I don't mean to take a jab at Office 2008, it has a new UI and much more features than any other Office release for the Mac platform, but I was expecting more from a Intel native release. Anyone else feel the same?
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I too use Office X and find it works quite well for all my needs. I can't imagine paying what they are asking for the new one since I don't see a corresponding benefit.
 
They really have to hurry up with the next Mac Messenger, its not acceptable that we only have horrible apps for our MSN A/V needs...
 
psychofreak said:
Adium is great, but I have a feeling it will be a very long time until we get good A/V with it (heck, the file transfers are still ridiculously slow)...
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Good point, but we can always hope.

Anyway, I should have Office 2008 sitting waiting for me when I get home tomorrow. I'm actually quite excited, there's something disconcerting about not having it on a computer (new Mac user here)...

iWork is pretty fantastic, except numbers which is useless for scientific work so I can't wait to finally have Excel!

I just hope it isn't as slow as people on here are making out. I'll soon see. Can you choose not to install MSN and Entourage?
 
Yip, sorry, I never really qualified that comment!

I'm running it on a 2.8 iMac with 4Gb RAM and I don't think loading the apps and documents is any faster than the previous version. Seems to take ages to get going with anything. Disappointing really.

I've got work to do this weekend though so I'll have longer with it then to see if things improve.
 
I agree with the slow loading. It's the same way on my 2GHZ Core Duo Macbook with 2GB of ram. After I load it up, I just keep it in the memory. It doesn't bug me. I'm never in that much of a hurry anyways :p
 
It's like Windows Vista had a kid and called it Office:Mac. I'm reverting back to just using XP + Office 2003. I wish they made Excel 2003 to run natively on intel macs. This is just too bloated.
 
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