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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $127.50
You Save: $22.45 (15%)
New (35) Used (1) from $127.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  187 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home & Student Edition
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: GZA-00006
Model: 45426G
UPC: 882224526302
EAN: 0882224526302
ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new in box. Packaging still sealed. I wound up not needing it when I purchased a Dell instead of another Mac.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Office 2004, again. June 8, 2008
If you can find a substantive improvement in this product compared to the 2004 version (other than native Intel code), more power to you. It's still vastly slower than the Apple equivalents, still laden with an inconsistent, highly modal and un-Mac-like interface design, and now the internal scripting is gone.
If I didn't have to have full Excel compatibility, I would never run it at all.
disappointed June 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was excited to be able to run Office on my Mac without having to boot Windows. If Office applications are valuable to you, BEWARE, these are not the same apps we had on Windows. Outlook is called Entourage and seems to have most of the same features and capabilities, BUT you can't easily transfer your email, contacts, calendars, etc. from Outlook to Entourage. Big problem for me! Also Excel is not fully implemented with visual basic macros so spreadsheets with fancy built-in features won't work. This is also a problem for me.
Word seems to work fine but I haven't tried anything fancy there yet.
Bottom line: It's not the same Office you are used to if you came from Windows. They should be more clear about the differences.
Microsoft barely catching up for Mac users June 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like Office 2008 a lot more than Office 2004, which was a crippled software that had remained stagnant in the face of the evolution of it's PC counterpart. I am glad to see the updates made to usability and navigation. Yet, most of its functionality I continue to not need: Entourage still is still horrible when compared to Outlook and, overall, I hope for a decent version of OpenOffice (the current one is less than optimal) to be made available for the Mac platform in the near future.
As for Office, I prefer Keynote hands down over PowerPoint and normally don't need most of the functionality Excel bundles so Numbers tends to do the trick for me. But, as contributor to various web sites, I regularly exchange versions of my articles with editors and need to have access to version tracking, which makes me still go back to Word.
I considered buying a license of Fusion or Parallels to run OpenOffice on the "PC side," but it felt like a convoluted solution to a problem that I still believe will find itself solved completely on the Mac side, either through iWork or OpenOffice. That will certainly be the last time I purchase an Office license.
 Works beautifully May 31, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have used this for basic writing, Power Point and Excel. Every thing works nicely.
 If you like Vista, buy this too! May 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this software has the most bugs of anything I've ever used. Use the windows version. Don't even think about buying this one.
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