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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $109.99
You Save: $39.96 (27%)
New (47) Used (5) from $94.59
Avg. Customer Rating:  267 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home & Student
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: GZA00006
Model: GZA00006
UPC: 882224526302
EAN: 0882224526302
ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Moved from Windows Office March 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been using M/S Office for Windows for many years and after purchasing a new Mac I thought the transition would be smooth but I quickly found there are differences. As an Outlook user I was hoping to find everything to be the same and while it is similar to Entourage there are differences so be ready for a small learning curve. If you are coming from Outlook and planned to move your data sadly there is nothing Microsoft offers to do it. Here's a tip... look for a program called O2M (Outlook to Mac) by Little Machines for $10 that will bring all your emails, contacts, calendar info and pretty much everything else you may have saved up for years in Outlook.
Word and Excel have some differences but work well and the interface is nice on the Mac.
 I went back to Office 2004 March 20, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am one of those people who buys new software and upgrades right away. But, with Office 2008, I uninstalled it after one day and went back to Office 2004.
Why? Because Microsoft changed something in Word and you can no longer cut from Word and paste into Dreamweaver. Adobe has said that it will be months before they change DW to accommodate this new Office.
Microsoft is working very hard at driving customers away. First Vista and now this little gem for us Mac OS X users.
 Works Well March 20, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The only reason I purchased this product, was so I could convert my Word documents to Mac's Page. I am trying to get totally away from Microsoft since Mac has less problems and is much faster. Delivery was quick and I am satisfied with the service I got.
Buggy and Disappointing March 16, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've been using Word since it came out on the Mac back in 1984 and have used Excel since it replaced Multiplan as Microsoft's spreadsheet offering. There have been some low points along the way (Word 3 and Word 6 really stick out as stinkers). When I saw Office 2008 demoed at Macworld, Word and Excel both seemed really appealing, so I bought the new version. What I discovered is that Word is exceedingly unstable on all three Macs where I've installed it (that's how many the license allows): a G4 with 1GB RAM, a dual G5 with 2.5GB, and a MacBook with 2GB. Excel runs on my dual G5 with only occasional crashes, but "unexpectedly quits" on the G4 and the MacBook quite frequently. Throw in the loss of cross-platform compatibility (mostly related to not supporting the VBA-based macros/toolbars that my publishers employ) and I find it exceedingly difficult to recommend this product to anyone trying to accomplish real work. I've gone back to Office 2004.
Disappointing March 12, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have a brand new iMac 2.4 GHz, maxed out with 4 MB of RAM, and yet this program runs EXCRUCIATINGLY SLOW. Office 2004 ran much faster. Opening Word documents is like torture as the little spinning rainbow pinwheel appears for what seems like ever EVERY time I open a document. Every other program on my Mac runs superfast, and for this one to be so slow in what is supposed to be a native Intel Mac version, is unacceptable. Stick with the earlier 2004 release until they make improvements; this has the overall feel of a beta version and is more like a DOWNgrade than an UPgrade. A total disappointment.
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