| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $109.00
You Save: $40.95 (27%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  271 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: CD-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 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Seems really half-baked. September 8, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I read it time and again: Some people don't necessarily want to buy Office, but they think they have to. If your employer or school requires or recommends it, I suppose the choice is made for you.
But this version of Office presents some very real problems.
If you are working in a PC-dominated environment, buying this version of Office is not necessarily the answer. First, there are the reasonably well-known limitations of the Home and Student Edition: No support of Exchange or SharePoint, for example. Then, there is the much criticized decision to leave VBA out of all 2008 editions of Office:mac, affecting mostly Excel macros.
But then there are the less-publicized omissions and missing features: The Data Analysis Toolkit no longer works with Excel. (It used to in version 2004, but due to the lack of VBA, no longer does.) There is no equation editing in this version, nor will you be able to open those created in Windows versions of the software.
In fact, upon installation, Office does install a "readme" file (although it buries it in the program folder and does not call the user's attention to it) that contains a link to the "known issues" page for Office:mac at Microsoft's website. There, you find a list of further obstacles and incompatibilities when trying to work with Office users on Windows or with older versions of the software. And don't think these are isolated examples only power-users will encounter. I ran into them in surprisingly short order. Worse yet, there is currently no "test drive" version (as there was with 2004)for you to try before you buy.
With that "compatibility" so compromised, I can find no reason compelling enough to recommend this version of Office. It's buggy, slow, and expensive. Alternatives like iWork and OpenOffice are not only cheaper (or even free), they work much better.
 Terrible September 8, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Upgraded to this product on my aging PowerBook. Now it can take as much as 10 minutes to open Word or Entourage. It's horrible! Once open, Entourage works pretty well. Word seems to crash a lot. I don't use the other programs much.
Not Terrible, Not Wonderful September 7, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
LIke many Mac users, I'm a big fan of iWork; however, as I work in a school that is entirely PC based and which upgraded to Office 2007, having Office 08 means that I can now open attachments and send attachments without worrying about cross-compatibility issues.
I don't use Excel, so I can't say much about that, but PowerPoint and Word seem to work just as well as the PC based 07 versions, when I do use them. I don't like the layout of Word for Mac, it just doesn't make sense, the same is true for PowerPoint. iWork is a much more intuitive program with, IMO, many more options.
Having said that, this program does what I need it to do--gives me the ability to share files between home and school and to accept files from students and other teachers that I can actually read and work with from home.
Where are all the previous reviews for this item???????? I read pages of negative reviews just weeks ago! September 6, 2008
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've been considering purchasing Microsoft Office 2008 for Macs, and just weeks ago there were pages of (mostly negative) reviews; now there are only two reviews (the oldest from two days ago...???) Did Microsoft use its leverage to force Mr. Bezos and Amazon to remove all those negative reviews? Most disappointing to find those useful comments removed. I have not used this product, and gave it the low rating as Amazon required the star rating in order to post this comment.
Buggy September 6, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've never used such a buggy application. Too many to list. Still, overall it does what it's supposed to do. Sadly, it's not as good as iWork.
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