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Microsoft Launches Mac Office 2008

I find it amazing to see that I am now regretting that I installed office 2008, which I did mostly expecting a speed improvement being an Intel app.

It is almost ridiculous how slow the apps load. It takes more than 30 secs to start Word! office 2004 was even faster....
 
ddl said:
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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I get the same estimated ship date 3/3/08. I guess one way to look at it is that we are lucky, we get the free upgrade but maybe by that time they will have worked out a few bugs.:)

Side note: My $100 microsoft black friday rebate said that it would be shipped out on the 28th of January and I recieved it on the 10th of January. Maybe the ship date is real conservative and we can expect it sooner. (doubt it, but here's to hoping.)
 
Nosoforos said:
I find it amazing to see that I am now regretting that I installed office 2008, which I did mostly expecting a speed improvement being an Intel app.

It is almost ridiculous how slow the apps load. It takes more than 30 secs to start Word! office 2004 was even faster....
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Very sad indeed. Word 2003 on XP loads in a nano second.
 
With regard to the complaints with speed, how fast is it on PPCs? Am I only going to see a speed increase if I have an Intel?
 
... but how much will this cost?

superleccy said:
Endnote indicate they are working on a compatible version.

http://www.endnote.com/support/en_wpchart_mac.asp

SL
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All right--but I've alread been waiting two years for an Intel-native Word, and I feel like the wait jsut got a while lot longer. And by "When we develop a version of Endnote that has CWYW compatibility with Word 2008" they most likely mean I will have to buy Endnote AGAIN. So. Irritating. IMO, it is a serious ball-dropping for MS and they should reintro support.
 
So I took the plunge, well where I work took the plunge and bought Mac Office 08. So far the one thing I miss over 04 is you cannot open 2008 in two windows like I could with 04. For instance I would have my email open in one window and the calendar open in another. with 2008 this is not possible, or I'm doing something wrong.
 
PowerPoint is the best package of the bunch. Much improved. I need it for compatibility reasons and it displays .pptx files 99.9% perfectly. However, for creating decks myself, Keynote still rules all.
 
stoutboy1 said:
I get the same estimated ship date 3/3/08. I guess one way to look at it is that we are lucky, we get the free upgrade but maybe by that time they will have worked out a few bugs.:)

Side note: My $100 microsoft black friday rebate said that it would be shipped out on the 28th of January and I recieved it on the 10th of January. Maybe the ship date is real conservative and we can expect it sooner. (doubt it, but here's to hoping.)
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I too got my check on Friday but never got a notice of when it was coming. The odds are the CD or DVD they send will have been burnt when they froze the code last month with no fixes. Hopefully (and I use that term wistfully) they will come out with an update we can download by the time we get our stuff. I assume you too took advantage of the black Friday sales special by MS. I ended up opting for the Home/Student edition where I got 3 legal copies for upgrading. I didn't see the need for any of the extras and I often need to open MS documents that just don't display correctly in Pages or NeoOffice.
 
ddl said:
I too got my check on Friday but never got a notice of when it was coming. The odds are the CD or DVD they send will have been burnt when they froze the code last month with no fixes. Hopefully (and I use that term wistfully) they will come out with an update we can download by the time we get our stuff. I assume you too took advantage of the black Friday sales special by MS. I ended up opting for the Home/Student edition where I got 3 legal copies for upgrading. I didn't see the need for any of the extras and I often need to open MS documents that just don't display correctly in Pages or NeoOffice.
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I just went to the Mactopia Web site and left a comment on their forum. I'll let you you know if the moderator posts the message and what the reply is.
 
The official word from Microsoft is that Office 2008 no longer supports data analysis functions. HAHAHAHA what a joke. So, basically it lost key features and runs about 1000 times slower. Now, that's progress. We are getting rid of this.

Heads up to anyone who assumed they could use Excel 2008 for basic financial regressions or anything requiring data analysis toolpacks.
 
Nosoforos said:
I find it amazing to see that I am now regretting that I installed office 2008, which I did mostly expecting a speed improvement being an Intel app.

It is almost ridiculous how slow the apps load. It takes more than 30 secs to start Word! office 2004 was even faster....
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Agreed. The most shocking part, imo, of Office '08

I was very annoyed at how long it took for me to load '04 Word and expected '08 to be faster....WRONG....even worse which is downright pathetic
 
Well, I guess I will be leaving 2004 on my machine, I'm glad it wasn't my $ that bought the 08 version. Hopefully through upgrades they will fix a few of must haves that MS took out.
 
Dillenger said:
Well, I guess I will be leaving 2004 on my machine, I'm glad it wasn't my $ that bought the 08 version. Hopefully through upgrades they will fix a few of must haves that MS took out.
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I have no link. This was a verbal communication with an IT guy. I would love it if he were mistaken. I'll do some googling.
 
Pre-ordered mine in November of last year...

Just received an e-mail informing me that it is back ordered and I will not get it until MARCH!!!! WTF! Thanks M$$$$$
 
Anyone notice a big difference in Entourage? I am one who likes it and it's been great but when I updated to Leopard, it sometimes acts wonky, slow in opening and such, so I hope it is improved in Office 2008. I would love to hear Entourage comments for those who have used the new one with Leopard.
 
It seems fast enough on my MacBook. I'll need a few days to full evaluate it and play around with the features but I think it's pretty good...
 
Has any one gotten a data analysis tool pack or the regression function to work with Office:Mac 2008? It seems to be missing.
 
jfremani said:
Has any one gotten a data analysis tool pack or the regression function to work with Office:Mac 2008? It seems to be missing.
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I was looking for the ANOVA tests too and couldn't find them. I actually didn't realise you could use Excel for statistical analysis until after I'd gotten rid of my old computer and got my Mac. I'd like to give it a whirl but it may have to simply be some t-tests or something.

Hopefully the analysis tool pack will be released soon. I'd like to use it for the paper I'm working on! :mad:

EDIT: I shouldn't complain too much, Numbers can't even do error bars on graphs...
 
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