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Microsoft Unveils Mac Office 2008 Packages, Pricing
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I have a feeling that because the Office '07 deal for students runs until April, they will have something similar when Office '08 for Mac comes out in January.
Wow, if Apple would just say that about Leopard, I'd go buy my new MBP tonight.
I was pretty happy with Office X but the (ahem) extended student demo version was wearing on my conscience. So I upgraded to NeoOffice and now I can use either that or iWork.
I also live in this magical dreamworld that someday, someone will release an Office suite whereby all copies sold in Canada have the spell checker set to Canadian spellings (or insert your country here) or make it easy to change it without changing the keyboard around to reflect the mythical "Canadian keyboard" which I've never seen in the real world.
When that happens, I'll maybe reward that company with a purchase. I shouldn't have to hack my iPhone to make it work in my country. Did I say iPhone? I meant office suite.
There certainly should be swedish too. Sweden has the biggest population of the nordic countries, so it wouldn't make sense to exclude swedish. Especially when swedish is so similar to danish and norwegian and Finland is bilingual.
Microsoft still thinks Office is top dog, eh? For that price, it better not only be better than iWork, but it also had better find all the best free porn on the internet for me.
Very well said! Canadians are always getting the shaft though.... it's partly understandable because we're so small in population compared to the states.... but at the same time they should think about their cross border business.
It's spelt COLOUR, not color.... and CENTRE, not center! lol
Unless I'm missing something, for a typical home user, the price is falling from $399 to $149?
or is it a typo somewhere, and 'Student and Home' should be 'Student and Teacher'?
or is it aggressive pricing to compete with iWork?
I can buy software in my bookstore for 5 bucks (thats how i got office 04) but they only have the student versions.
1) It sux for only a few people, since *most* home users don't need exchange. This is a way for MS to charge higher prices to businesses only, and keep prices lower for the average person.
2) I imagine you can use IMAP with your exchange account--you can in the current version. The only thing you won't get is group calendaring. Does that really matter to you? If it really matters, well pony up $250.
So what functionality am I missing out on using X rather than the newer 2004? X has done everything I have ever thrown at it and more with not a single problem. I really wish the 'document view' was on the main tool bar and not buried under a menu. Other than that, it is great. Having to not verify it or use a key is quite nice as well. I hear only great things about iWork and wouldn't mind using it over having to emulate X on a Intel machine if I ever give up on my Powerbook.
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I don't agree with that preference. I'd rather that they just reasonably price the package. Mac OS X is $129, and it's absolutely every bit as full-featured as MS Windows Vista "Ultimate."
Will Exchange Work with '08?
Anyone know if Microsoft is making changes to Entourage so Exchange will actually work this time?
Email works fine, but calendar functionality is horrible: Events don't sync properly. So If I have a meeting on both calendars, nuke it at work (PC), then log back on via my Mac / Entourage, Entourage will put the event back on the work PC (rather than noting the newer event on the PC). Thus I can't use Entourage with Exchange because it mucks my calendar up each time it "syncs".
If they're not changing this it's home edition all the way.. Guess I'll have to wait for some reviews to see if they got it working properly...
Anyone know if Microsoft is making changes to Entourage so Exchange will actually work this time?
Email works fine, but calendar functionality is horrible: Events don't sync properly. So If I have a meeting on both calendars, nuke it at work (PC), then log back on via my Mac / Entourage, Entourage will put the event back on the work PC (rather than noting the newer event on the PC). Thus I can't use Entourage with Exchange because it mucks my calendar up each time it "syncs".
If they're not changing this it's home edition all the way.. Guess I'll have to wait for some reviews to see if they got it working properly...
Nope - don't get the negativity.
What would have cost the typical home user $399 will now cost $149.
That's a huge price difference, and so a pretty good thing, right?
Or am I missing something?
What would have cost the typical home user $399 will now cost $149.
That's a huge price difference, and so a pretty good thing, right?
Or am I missing something?
i don't even think it was that hard to get the student edition anyway. maybe you've got a kid or something. or maybe you could just order it online no questions asked. but is the removal of exchange support new for the student version? cause that's kinda lame.
No More M$ Pocket Picking
I've paid for v.x and 2004, and that's the last M$ is getting from me. Whether you use Neo or OO2 with X11, both are terrific products that are already universal binary (how come openoffice could make a UB version so fast and M$ takes nearly two years to come up with one? Could it be a screw-you message to Apple over their delay in making iTunes and iPod Vista-friendly?).
And I have to add this: iWork 08 is excellent. Keynote alone is worth the $80, just a brilliant piece of software. But Pages too is lots better, faster, and more usable, and Numbers is a very good version 1.
I've paid for v.x and 2004, and that's the last M$ is getting from me. Whether you use Neo or OO2 with X11, both are terrific products that are already universal binary (how come openoffice could make a UB version so fast and M$ takes nearly two years to come up with one? Could it be a screw-you message to Apple over their delay in making iTunes and iPod Vista-friendly?).
And I have to add this: iWork 08 is excellent. Keynote alone is worth the $80, just a brilliant piece of software. But Pages too is lots better, faster, and more usable, and Numbers is a very good version 1.
Great but does it know the difference between 65535 and 100000?
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel/browse_thread/thread/2bcad1a1a4861879/2f8806d5400dfe22?hl=en#2f8806d5400dfe22
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel/browse_thread/thread/2bcad1a1a4861879/2f8806d5400dfe22?hl=en#2f8806d5400dfe22
I use Word all the time - Pages is limited if you have to share with other (often Windows) users. Yes, I know you can export as .doc files but that's a hassle. Besides, Word works well.
I've never used Entourage but the 2008 version with My Day looks tempting. Could it be better than iCal/Mail, I wonder?
I've never used Entourage but the 2008 version with My Day looks tempting. Could it be better than iCal/Mail, I wonder?
What I want to know for these high priced editions is where is?
-Access
-Accounting Express
-Communicator (is this Exchange?)
-Groove
-Infopath
-Onenote
-Publisher
Though some of these I could care less about, I would like to see Access and Publisher. Onenote seems like it could have some uses too. I don't use anything besides the basic Word, Excel and Entourage though.
Mainly I just want parallel products when the prices are the same. Of course MS does this to "encourage" Mac users to purchase Windows. Are there any good alternatives to Publisher and Access that are 100% compatible, including any Macros if these programs use them.
-Access
-Accounting Express
-Communicator (is this Exchange?)
-Groove
-Infopath
-Onenote
-Publisher
Though some of these I could care less about, I would like to see Access and Publisher. Onenote seems like it could have some uses too. I don't use anything besides the basic Word, Excel and Entourage though.
Mainly I just want parallel products when the prices are the same. Of course MS does this to "encourage" Mac users to purchase Windows. Are there any good alternatives to Publisher and Access that are 100% compatible, including any Macros if these programs use them.
Until I know that I will be able to save documents in standard old .doc file format I won't even consider purchasing Office.
I currently use Pages and NeoOffice for word processing and I have no problems sharing documents with anyone on any platform. For spreadsheet work I often have no choice but to use Excel 2004 due to the lack of support for many scientific functions and graphing capabilities in Numbers and NeoOffice.
If Office requires that I use their new file format as the default file formats then I will not purchase the new Office and continue to use the old Excel when I need to and begin using Numbers when ever I don't require the scientific functions and graphing features.
Dave
I currently use Pages and NeoOffice for word processing and I have no problems sharing documents with anyone on any platform. For spreadsheet work I often have no choice but to use Excel 2004 due to the lack of support for many scientific functions and graphing capabilities in Numbers and NeoOffice.
If Office requires that I use their new file format as the default file formats then I will not purchase the new Office and continue to use the old Excel when I need to and begin using Numbers when ever I don't require the scientific functions and graphing features.
Dave
Onenote! My Kingdom for Mac Onenote!
Communicator is like a business version of messenger but it also plugs into VOIP to do voicemail and does a nifty presence thingy.
I'm also surpirsed that the mac creative community isn't crying out for Groove. There used to be a mac version before Microsoft bought the company behind it.