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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Upgrade | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $239.95
Buy New: $173.99
You Save: $65.96 (27%)
New (41) Used (1) from $173.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 128
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Upgrade
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 73101769
Model: 73101769
UPC: 882224543170
EAN: 0882224543170
ASIN: B000WR2F3G
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: THIS ITEM IS BRAND NEW IN ORIGINAL UNOPENED RETAIL PACKAGE. THE INSTALL PROGRAM WILL SEARCH YOUR HARDDRIEVE FOR A PREVIOUS VERSION OF ANY MS OFFICE FOR MAC 98 0R 2001-04 SUITE OR APPLICATION.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Office 2008 is a triple "Screw You" to educational users! January 24, 2008
22 out of 25 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 Entourage '08.
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.
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 it's 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.
NO VBA!!!!!!!!!!! January 20, 2008
25 out of 26 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!!!!!
 No HTML email forwarding? Ridiculous. January 18, 2008
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
The suite seems fast and well put together, however aside from the aforementioned missing VBA support and analysis toolpaks in Excel, one major highly visible feature is missing from Entourage. The missing feature is the ability to forward HTML emails. It's a glaringly ridiculous feature omission. I don't want to have to continually fallback to mail.app just to forward intact HTML emails. Microsoft needs to fix this now.
Snappy but Word 2008 doesn't work with Spaces January 18, 2008
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
Office 2008 is much faster than the 2004 version, and it makes your entire system feel delightfully snappy. Unfortunately, Word 2008 doesn't work with Spaces. It allows you to place different documents in different spaces, but your documents won't stay there. Instead, they all return to one space. Who would have thought Word 2004 (which has no problem with Leopard) would work better with Leopard than Word 2008?
Summary verdict: if you use Word and rely on Spaces, you'll hate Office 2008.
Lack of significant Entourage improvements a big disappointment January 17, 2008
109 out of 112 found this review helpful
For anyone who uses Microsoft Exchange server, you need the full version of this product. That's all good and well. What is NOT good and well, however, is that Entourage still does not support key features of Outlook and Exchange: you cannot sync tasks and notes, you cannot archive, and you cannot import .PST files. Entourage does not support complex HTML, either, so forwarding or replying to a complex HTML email results in garbage HTML tags going to your recipient. In short, what should have been a triumph for Microsoft is a resounding dud. The Mac is still very much a second class citizen for Microsoft users in an enterprise. I hope Microsoft will immediately address Entourage. Sadly, in this release, they did next to nothing to provide serious Entourage improvements.
The other applications are mildly spruced up, and are now Universal (Intel) binaries, so they run faster on the new Macs, and are now feature set equivalent to Windows.
But if you are like me and 90% of your work day is spent on email, the lack of a serious equivalent to Outlook on the Mac makes this release a real disappointment. Entourage should have been brought up to Outlook-like capabilities, but it is far, far behind its Windows companion.
Personally, I would recommend using Apple's Mail and iCal, coupled with Apple's iWork products. I bought both and was hoping, frankly, for better from Office. I'm going back to iWork and Apple's applications and ripping out my Exchange server. Microsoft had four years to bring Entourage up to par. Instead they've delivered essentially a universal binary release on Entourage 2004. We Mac users deserve better.
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