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Microsoft Unveils Mac Office 2008 Packages, Pricing

Wow. That's outstanding news.

Currently, here in the UK at least, there's Student & Teacher edition (reasonably priced) or Standard edition (outrageously priced). The "Home" monicker suggests that the reasonably-priced edition is now being opened up to those who don't have educational status.

Never thought I'd say this, but well done, Microsoft.
 
Automator support!!!! that's really great, wouldn't you hate not to have visual basic support... cough cough neooffice..... (plus if you download neooffice today.... you can download the newer one when ever it comes out for less then the price of shipping office...)


P.s.
I'm just waiting until symphony comes to the mac. Until then neooffice is pristine...
 
Microsoft sure do love their editions.

I guess you can't buy Word separately any more since home edition is only $150.
 
The home edition seems like a reasonable buy, but the other versions are pretty insanely priced, IMHO.

I'm still running Office X on my folk's iMac... 2004 on mine. I see no reason to upgrade. Of course, all of my macs are PPC... guess I'll upgrade to get universal when I get a new intel-based mac.
 
aLoC said:
Microsoft sure do love their editions.

I guess you can't buy Word separately any more since home edition is only $150.
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lol you're saying Microsoft loves their editions? Apple releases new OS's just as frequently (if not even more frequently) than Microsoft..... Not to mention a little thing called iWork '06, iWork '08..... hmm that's a smaller gap than 2004 to 2008 I think....

And I realize now that you were talking about variations of the same software, not new releases..... lol misunderstood
 
anyone who thinks iWork is better than Office is either a fool or a fanboy. Neither is better than the other. they serve different purpose.

plus, if you are willing to forgo those $400 and $500 version, Excel itself is worth $150. I generally don't like MS products but Office is an exception.

plus, the notes layout only found in Mac Office is great when you are taking lecture notes for the class. iWork just doesn't give you as good of a tool when you are trying to word process. iWork is great at making pages, but it is not a good word processor.

I do agree that Keynote is better than PowerPoint but there is a compatibility issue too.
 
Yateball said:
lol you're saying Microsoft loves their editions? Apple releases new OS's just as frequently (if not even more frequently) than Microsoft..... Not to mention a little thing called iWork '06, iWork '08..... hmm that's a smaller gap than 2004 to 2008 I think....

And I realize now that you were talking about variations of the same software, not new releases..... lol misunderstood
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I the poster was pointing out that Microsoft always seems to have 3+ versions of every current product.
 
joeconvert said:
I the poster was pointing out that Microsoft always seems to have 3+ versions of every current product.
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Yup, that's why I said that in the last line of my post.... and to the original poster.... you're right Microsoft does always seem to have different variations. They claim it's to give people only what they really "need", but you know it's just a moneygrab for people looking at the versions thinking "man I want the super ultimate pwnage edition cuz it sounds better than all the others"
 
maberga29 said:
Does anyone know what increadible advances have been made in '08?
Unless it turns .doc files to gold, I won't be upgrading.
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Probably not, but it will be able to easily read and edit the .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files that my Windows-based friends and teachers keep sending me.
 
joeconvert said:
I the poster was pointing out that Microsoft always seems to have 3+ versions of every current product.
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I understood where you were coming from. But, in this case, I'd rather have options than be stuck with having to buy a $400 piece of software.

My main complaint as I semi-stated above is, why no exchange support in Student-Teacher edition. Way bogus too me.
 
Is this the edition with the ribbon? Hmmm. I felt like I was at square one again the other day when a friend asked me to help her fill out a form that was done up in Word. She handed me her laptop running Vista and the new Office with the ribbon. Just trying to figure out how to save the file, I was completely perplexed.

Native intel binaries vs. having to re-learn everything. Hmm.

At least I will be able to obtain the full version for $30 through my workplace. :D
 
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