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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $122.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  214 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Dvd-rom
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
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Condition: New! In sealed retail box! Ships next business day from NY!
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 Office 2008 Student/Teacher Version a triple "Screw You" to users! January 24, 2008
31 out of 35 found this review helpful
As an educational user who uses Entourage 2004 to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server for school email and contact lists, I am unbelievably frustrated with the lack of Exchange support in the student/teacher versions of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition.
And to add insult to injury, my previous copy of the 2004 Office suite is not eligible for upgrades. This mean's that for me (and hundreds of other users who use a Microsoft Exchange server at school) the only option is to drop the full $399 on the "full version" of the program,Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.
As if that was not enough, since the educational version offers three user licenses (which I us for my three computers: home, laptop and office) and the "full version" only offers one user license, that $399 price tag just tripled to almost $1200 in software that just last year cost me $150. Microsoft's little change is a HUGE deal! If I want to be legal in my use of their software, I'm gonna have to drop $1200. I can tell you - that isn't gonna happen. Something like this makes Apple's iWork (limitations and all) look more appealing.
So much for the idea that MS and Apple where going to play nice for once. Microsoft doesn't know is elbow from it's @%&, because it was only a few months ago that they offered a brilliant "anti-piracy" program that allowed college students to purchase a legal version of the PC Office Suite at less than $70.
I guess we'll have to see if several months from now, they offer the same thing to Mac users because I'm sure that a "bone-head" move like this is usually what it takes to make people "borrow" software from a "friend". In fact, when I called Microsoft to ask if this was all true, their own tech told me that if I "lost" my unlock key, I could buy another for only $10. I guess even Microsoft's own staff can see just how stupid this move is.
No support in the 2008 education version and no upgrade path from the 2004 education version... what a triple slap in the face to paying customers who don't steal their software.
How can they release such a dog? January 23, 2008
25 out of 33 found this review helpful
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition
This product is not ready for prime time. How can they take a product that was functional a decade ago and mess it up.
The registration process doesn't recognize the product ID number.
Word has a default save to a .docx formate which is not compatible with earlier versions. It doesn't seem to do anything better than previous versions, even its announced features are window dressing. Word still can't speak text.
Entourage's search through the address book is buggie. Its display contains a line for each day that an email was received - adding needless clutter and taking useful space.
The program introduced a bug with the keychain in my Mac operating system.
 Not Impressed. Further use lowers rating to one and a half stars January 22, 2008
41 out of 46 found this review helpful
I just switched to an IMac for my home computer. On my work desktop and my work laptop I operate in a Windows/Office environment. My review concentrates on how easy and compatible this version is to use compared to the Windows version of Office. It is some 10 years since I used a Mac regularly so I am readjusting to the Mac but the issues I raise here are to do with software and not my Mac, which i really enjoy using.
I tried to register my new very legit copy of Office 2008 for Mac online copy but my product number was not recognized. Mmmm. Ok at least it works.
As others have mentioned you can not drag images across and have them reproduce. So tables from web pages get messed up in Entourage emails. But Apple's Mail program will do this.
Likewise images from web pages have to be copied to the desk top and then moved to powerpoint.
This home/student edition has no Exchange support so my calendar will sync down from the server but not up from my Mac. Since my work place already shells out big bucks to Microsoft, as do many education institutions whose staff members will want to use this product at home a little exchange support on this cheaper copy may have been good PR. As it stands we are being punished for either not paying a lot more for a tiny extra feature, or for daring to leave the Windows regime.
And as others have noted the lack of Visual Basic means End Notes is not usable.
[And today I tried to open a PDF file received through Entourage and it would not open. The error message read the file was damaged. When i opened Mail and tried to open the file it opened. I had the same problem last week and put it down to the file not Entourage, or should that be Enter a Rage? My rating is now down one star. January 25, 2008. But today after I received a word document and it would not open I further examined the issue and realized that there is a tiny message in the header of emails with attachments telling you the whole message has not been downloaded. Click on the get entire message and then save the attachment and it will open. I assume this procedure is a security feature of some sort but it does seem over cumbersome. Is this feature a way of Microsoft getting back at those Mac ads mocking PCs for needing so many warning messages and the like when attaching peripherals? So rating back up half a star because you can open attachments but poor guidance about how to do so. January 27, 2008.]
Also what is the use of putting MS Messenger on the disc when it is: a. free to download and b. does not come with audio and video?! Microsoft may as well have included a free plastic toy because this is like a cereal give away gimmick only the toy would have been more useful and fun.
I get the feeling that maybe I should have bought Office 2004.
I needed this product since my work place has a site license for Windows versions but not Mac versions I had to buy it. But I think that I will probably not get the next version, but rather buy a Mac laptop, subscribe to .Mac, and consign my work computer to the storeroom (or try to get a Mac) and switch to the Apple software that came with my Mac, so that I do not have to work around all these issues.
This Version of Office Behaves as if it Were a Beta January 22, 2008
120 out of 125 found this review helpful
This version of Office 2008 is an improvement over Office 2004 in that it runs natively now on an Intel Mac. It is a major improvement in speed. And the stability has improved in that it has not crashed on me in the week it has been in use. Office 2004 used to crash almost daily before. If you do not have an Intel Mac do not bother with this upgrade. You are better off with Office 2004.
The look on Office 2008 is aesthetically pleasing and is more consistent with the elegant look of OSX.
That is about the best I have to say for this new upgrade. Word is so buggy I feel like I am working with a Beta version. I work a great deal with Spaces in Leopard and I have found that Word documents will jump to other windows. I have also found that when working in the notebook layout it can become unstable and partially disappear on me. The work arounds I have been using to stop this is I minimize the documents or I open another program in the Spaces window and then return to the document.
Word is still an excellent word processing program. The Notebook layout is essential for the note taking that I have to do, which other word processing programs don't have. Since I have to share documents with others it is handy to have a standard program with which to work.
The default format in Word is now Microsoft's .docx (xtml), which can be changed in the preferences to the more universal .doc.
When I have gone to the Microsoft website they have admitted that many of these problems are bugs and that they are being addressed. Another work around that MS recommended in Word was to create a new template from which to operate as it seems that the present template can be easily corrupted.
Since Office 2008 no longer works with macros and Visual Basic I have had to abandon the Excel self-calculating Invoice template I used to use all the way back to my PC days. I am now using a template that is in Pages - that works beautifully. The reason I am sticking with Excel over Numbers is that Excel is still a more powerful program. It keeps track of things that Numbers won't keep track of.
I am happier that Entourage is now more stable and responds better than the 2004 version. The My Day widget is a nice idea, but there is almost no room for customization and really makes no difference to how I organize my day.
I am left wondering if Microsoft is planning to go out of business. It seems that their products are getting worse. It is as if they have become bereft of any sense of creativity or innovation.;0) I had read that Office 2008 was designed by Mac enthusiasts. I think that was Microsoft propaganda. The impression I get is that Microsoft does not care about Mac business.
Is this a worthwhile upgrade? Not yet. If you can wait for the bugs to be worked out it will be a more satisfying upgrade. If you are dependent upon Visual Basic, or are operating on a PPC, save your money.
NO VBA!!!!!!!!!!! January 20, 2008
18 out of 30 found this review helpful
If you do any programming or statistical analysis with Office, stay away from this ripoff!!! VBA and the Analysis Toolpak are gone -- and of course, you won't find this out until AFTER you've wasted your money!!!!! Here's another wonderful feature: any graphics that you created for Powerpoint slides won't work in Office 2008. Who knows what other nightmares are hiding in this pile of crap?
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