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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $399.95
Buy New: $139.99
You Save: $259.96 (65%)
New (57) Used (8) from $111.93
Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 107
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 73101727
Model: 73101727
UPC: 882224526166
EAN: 0882224526166
ASIN: B000WR2F2M
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new! Never used! Fast shipment
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| Customer Reviews:
 Terrible waste of money February 22, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I was so eager to have a version of Office running in Universal Binary. I had imagined it would be fast, at least compared to the dinosaur that is Office 2004. Boy, was I wrong! I've got a brand-new MacBook Pro, but Word and Excel are slow as molasses; the launch times are especially appalling. Word can easily take up to 25 seconds (!) to open up a new blank document. Various internet forums describe launch times that are even longer than this. Word 2003 on my XP machine launches almost instantaneously.
Cursor movement and text selection are also very sluggish.
The programs are buggy, too. I've already had numerous crashes, and have lost some data.
One final note: it's impossible to track changes in Word in-line (i.e. without the annotation bubbles) but to keep the bubbles for comments. (This was possible is Word 2003 for XP.) In other words, if you write a comment while tracking changes in-line, the comment can only be viewed in the bizarre Review Pane, buried among dozens of marked changes. It's completely maddening and a big minus for anyone who does serious editing work.
A big thumbs down on this one, M$. I wish I could get my money back. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT.
just an absolute dog February 22, 2008
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I had been putting off a new macbook purchase until office 2008 came out. I am a power Excel user and was looking forward to the performance increase. Hardly. I have 10MB Excel files that take 5 minutes to open. A simple cut and paste of two continguous cells causes a 5 minute hang up. Some files won't even open, or if they do open, won't run. Just an absolute disaster. If you need any kind of advanced Excel functionality, avoid this product.
SLOW, CRAPPY, not worth it February 22, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have a MacBook 2.2 core 2 duo. Guess what? I can open a windows Excel spreadsheet faster with iWork (Numbers) than I can with MS Excel 2008 for the mac. Also, I can open a word document faster with iwork (pages) than I can with this version of Word. And I am not just talking a tiny bit faster. A Lot faster. Don't waste your time. Its functionality is also severely crippled in that the data Analysis Toolpak that is at the core of Excel's functionality is NOT INCLUDED in this expensive doorstop. If you must use excel on a mac, better to get windows xp and run it on parallels for the os x and just use a pirated copy of the best excel to date, Excel 2003. Peace.
 Close but no menthol light cigarette February 16, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Such high hopes for this upgrade, but 2008 is for the most part a change of window dressing. We bought this to be compatible with the occasional client who uses office, also for the email/scheduling system.
PROS:
Syncs with ical
Love the My Day app that let's you see a snapshot of schedule and tasks and flagged emails pop into this list.
Has had an immediate productivity boost.
Improved GUI, less cheesey.
Improved junk mail filtering.
CONS:
Fonts Loading: 20-50 seconds load time for each application in the suite. Then if you're using PowerPoint or Word clicking on the font list invokes a delay of up to 3 seconds. If you have a few fonts open and you're working on a document in PowerPoint doc it's a deal-breaker -- even turning off WYSIWYG font menu bears the same results unless you're rocking a Penryn. We're using keynote now.
Microsoft tells you, you can "install it on up to three computers". What they don't tell you is it can only be running on one -- it sniffs the network to find other computers and will make you quit. This is very annoying if you have a tower and a laptop.
PowerPoint Crashes
CONCLUSION
Overall I feel a bit duped by Microsoft -- new bells and whistles but feels like little effort has been put into overhauling the engine of this beast. If I were to do it again, I would buy ilife, but admit that I still use and prefer their email app. Entourage (mainly because of My Day).
Do not buy: missing important features February 11, 2008
77 out of 84 found this review helpful
I've been a heavy Office 2004 Excel user for the past two+ years. I was severely disappointed when I installed Office 2008. Microsoft elected to omit functionality that is core to being productive in Excel - solver support, data analysis, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and more. If you rely on Excel to do any type of business analysis or are a student that will require access to data analysis tools (regression, histograms, distributions, etc.), you will be SOL with 2008. I highly recommend that you avoid Office 2008.
Office 2008 is so incomplete and unsuited for professional work that it prompted me to write this review, which is my first.
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