While its out, you can use Open Office, its free and works with office files.
I’ve also seen a lot of requests for dates and I wanted to address that. We simply can’t answer these requests in a precise manner – all we can do is identify rough time frames. It isn’t that we are being secretive or cruel - shipping software as complex as Mac Office is half art, half science, and calling a precise date way in advance is next to impossible.
or NeoOffice, it looks more "Mac".