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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:
 Good facelift February 5, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
All office products are meanwhile filled with so many functionalities, that
even power-users cannot use even the half of it.
Although each user has special needs and a different idea how features should work/look like.
As a result, you cannot find "the best office".
I was wondering: So many complains.... iWorks is better, Office 2004 is better, this is missing, that is
not good enough... and they all have it. Why buy something, when the old/other software is that good?
No assault, just wondering...
From my point of view:
The functions of the programs are better structured.
Specially Entourage is much better for my needs. It is a good facelift. The handling is much easier.
The new functions like "My day" are very helpful for me. With one look "What's up for today".
I have no problem open each attachment type.
Word offered much better tools designing a document.
In the same manner PowerPoint.
I'm not an Excel Power-User. But for my basic needs it is more then sufficient.
This product is very new. So surprises are possibly included.
But so far I can recommend this office version.
 Surprise -- not even fully Intel native February 4, 2008
On top of all of the other criticisms posted here, you'll get a nice surprise if you choose About This Mac > More Info... > Software > Applications and look in the "Kind" column. There are still a few parts of Office that haven't been migrated; they show up as "PowerPC" in that column. This means that your Intel Mac will still be running Rosetta for those parts. What a joke of an "upgrade" this is.
Typical Microsoft February 3, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the typical bug-ridden crashware we've all come to expect from Microsoft. It took me almost a year to come to terms with putting Microsoft software on my Mac. After all, frustration with Windows XP is why I bought a Mac in the first place. Using Office for Mac brings back all those fond memories of living with Windows. If you must have Office, then grin and bear it. If you can live without it, save yourself some money and aggravation - skip it.
 WARNING DO NOT BUY February 1, 2008
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
I was delighted when my copy arrived as I use Office 2007 at work and was hoping that some of the cool features would be in Office 2008 for the Mac.
Boy was I disappointed. The first thing I noticed is that it is essentially only a MINOR update over Office X, essentially only giving the user the ability to read/write the new xml-based formats.
Excel suffers from serious LOSS of functionality, even over the previous version of Office X for Mac. In particular, I cannot create a custom-derived x-axis on charts (aka, 'Category Axis'). In fact, the only type of category axis you can create is one of non-formula-based, static text. Even if you try to create it that way, then replace this static-text data with real information, the chart will not display it (very bizarre). In my line of work, this makes Excel 2008 completely useless. The weird thing is, the product itself can actually manage with charts fine if you create them in *any* other version of Excel (Mac or PC). You just cannot create them because of the lame interface that they've created to try to be more "mac-like".
This 'update' is the result of some freakishly bad product management. I'm afraid this will have to be returned and only when a patch for this serious issue is released will I even think of coming back.
Pretty features, bad product. I would use iWork instead January 31, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I like the nice glass look and some of the new features, but overall it is not a product I would use. I've used various versions of Office for Windows, OpenOffice.org, and Office 2004/2008 for Mac, as well as iWork 06 and iWork 08. I prefer iWork 08 the best, and while Office 2008 is pretty nice, there are some issues I have with it which keep it from being my product of choice.
*Performance: Office programs typically take a few seconds longer to open than iWork programs do. It takes up more ram and makes the whole computer run more slowly than an iWork program does.
*Cost: What is Microsoft thinking? Charging hundreds of dollars for productivity programs (depending on the version), when OpenOffice.org (however ugly-looking and special-feature-lacking it is) is free, and when iWork, a superior product, is well under a hundred dollars.
*Size: The size of all the programs and files in Office 2008 Home & Student is over 900 mb, bigger than it needs to be. iWork+iCal+Mail is less than 700 mb. And Office also has tons of visible files in the Office folder, all of which are executable and pose potential security risks.
*Compatibility: Here's a funny one. I opened a Word document I made in Office 2003 (for Windows, .doc format) in both Pages (from iWork) and Word (from Office). The formatting (paragraph size, margins, etc.) was nearly identical to the original when viewed in Pages, but when viewed in Word 2008, formatting was different! This isn't always the case, though. There was a document I made in Office 2007 (.docx) and formatting was closer to the original when viewed in Office 2008 than when viewed in Pages. But still, Microsoft made Office 2003 and Office 2008, and you'd think they would know how to keep formatting the same better than Apple.
*A bad copy. True to Microsoft's past, they just copied features found in iWork 08 and mushed them into Office 2008, only they didn't do a good job. Like 3D slide transitions really look 3D in Keynote, but they are almost a joke in Office. Or the thing in PowerPoint to help position graphics: it doesn't work with as many items as it does in Keynote. Or controlling PowerPoint with the Apple Remote doesn't work as well, and you can't start a presentation with the remote either.
*Not intuitive. Toolbars are a thing of the past, and you have to keep a side window open for formatting and such. However, if you're viewing the formatting for, say, a chart, you will have no access to basic font formatting at that time.
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