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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $124.96
You Save: $24.99 (17%)
New (38) Used (2) from $93.90
Avg. Customer Rating:  198 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Dvd-video
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home & Student Edition
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: GZA00006
Model: GZA00006
UPC: 882224526302
EAN: 0882224526302
ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: (Authentic Microsoft Retail Version NOT Oem or Academic) Item Is Brand New in Factory Sealed Original Retail Box Never Opened, Registered, or Used with UPC Intact. Fully Registerable and Eligible for future updates, Orders are shipped out within 3 business days and delivery confirmation is emailed to you so you can track your packages arrival time online.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Bleahh. July 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If Microsoft and Apple are going to force us to buy Word, can't they at least make the program work without being so damn buggy? Word's persistently bossy auto-formating and general kloodgy bugginess has been going on for years and years -- why is this still the case?? These people are making gazillions of dollars off this stuff, so why can't they get the basics right and stop driving customers batty?
Also, this version has too many bells and whistles. If you just want a simple word processing program, the rest of Word's shiny goo-gaws can be really irritating. It should be much easier for users to turn off any unwanted features -- software engineers may be in love with their own designs, but that doesn't mean the average user will be, too.
 Excellent, no problems. June 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have had no problems with this product, very easy to install and works good, looks even better. Anyone thinking of getting this product should have no worries.
So many 5 Star, 1 Line reviews. Predictable June 28, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Amazing how MS has people spamming the product ratings here. The bottom line is when this software was released it was *extremely* buggy and Microsoft even acknowledged many of these bugs online, in public fora. They since have made several bugs fixes and a few performance tweaks and the product is more stable as a result, but still not as stable as it should be for public use. Take it from someone who tests major league commercial software applications on a regular basis: there is NO EXCUSE for MS releasing a product that was this poorly tested. The Mac Development team at MS is very small compared to other teams and they are resource starved, so it's less the developers themselves then careless policy on the part of MS management. Were they to put more of their considerable resources into developing this product it would be released on a more regular schedule and likely with better results.
Most of the five star reviews here are either totally bogus, or written by people who write 1 page Word Documents and send email, thinking that makes them qualified to comment on the performance of the whole suite of applications and functionalities. Ask any hard-core Office 2004 user (someone who uses all the apps on a weekly basis) what they think about Office 2008 and the response is almost guaranteed to be negative. For some the only reason to update is that Office 2004, when used on Intel Macs, is really slow compared to older PPC Macs (which Office 2004 was designed for). So for some speed may make this a requirement, but don't expect smooth sailing; choppy seas are ahead until the next major update arrives.
Even at this stage (June 2008) this product is late-beta quality IMO. Almost ready for prime-time. By the time the second major update rolls around, it will be what it should have been from the start. Buying this product by the end of Summer 2008, should be a much safer bet for people. By then I would suggest with the fixes that should be coming, this will be a 4 star product. Not before then!
 SP1 Makes a big difference June 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Out of the box, Office:Mac is really buggy and has lots of minor annoying issues. However, with SP1 most of the major problems have been fixed.
Lack of VBA support is a huge pain, but rumor is MS will fix this in the next version of Office:Mac
EndNote Cite While You Write now works with Word 2008 so this makes is much better for me to use. SP1 is required for CWYW from EndNote to work.
Entourage is pretty terrible, and I am a longtime Outlook junkie on PC. I use Mail.app instead. Entourage has a poor Non-Mac UI, is slow, crash prone and not compatible with regular outlook .pst files so what is the point? Entourage also doesn't work well with exchange either.
Word, Excel and Powerpoint are pretty good overall unless you need VBA compatibility.
User interface of Office is really inconcsistent now between the versions and platforms. It is a real pain in a mixed environment. You have to learn where things are on each platform and version. Thus if you are in a mixed environment of Macs with Mac Office 2004, Mac Office 2008 and PC's with both Office XP and Office 2007 you will have a hard time finding commands (or remembering where they are in each version). It is painfully obvious that the Mac Office developers do not communicate very well with the Office 2007 developers.
Good enough June 26, 2008
Thus far I've only used word and excel, and both only for very light work. I do find it a little annoying that it defaults to the docx format. I suppose in the future this might be the best, and I wonder if perhaps microsoft made it this way in order to force this standard.
I've had difficulty opening a microsoft doc from earlier versions once. It wasn't really a problem, but required a few extra mouse clicks and commands that I didn't expect to have to include.
All in all, the program is fine, but it's the compatibility and cross platform use that remains a concern. I've not used it widely enough to get a sense for this, but I would say expect to run into at least a few annoyances along the way
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