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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $110.00
You Save: $39.95 (27%)
New (35) Used (7) from $93.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  245 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 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent office suite September 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We bought Office '08 for our Macs several months ago (right after it was released) and as of the latest update, it's been stellar.
Before I begin, we own and use iWork '08 (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) on all our Macs; we use it side-by-side with Office 2008. We also own and use Office 2003 and Office 2007 on our PCs as well.
Office 2008 is probably 95% as good as Office 2007--what I mean by good is all the "good stuff" that Office 2007 includes. Backward compatibility is excellent, fast on Intel chips, and comes w/ a slew of useful tools (esp. for writing in Word). Powerpoint '08 is a welcome refresh of the old '04 version--new everything, but it still is not Keynote by any stretch (Keynoters know what I'm talking about). Excel is fine, nothing exciting, but VBA script is noticeably absent from the old version. I don't use Excel a lot and have unofficially switched to Numbers (iWork '08) for 90% of the spreadsheeting I do (which is very little anyway).
I don't use Entourage at all (Mail.app primarily) so I couldn't tell you how well it works, or what it does for me. If you're a Mac user, you're probably using Mail.app w/ iCal and Address Book. However, there are a few die-hards that swear by Entourage as "Outlook for the rest of us". I've tinkered w/ it in previous versions of Office (Office X) and it was decent, but not anything groundbreaking.
Word '08 is still the king of desktop word processing. I use Pages '08 a lot but Word is still the king when it comes to doing anything more than letters. Granted, Pages is very powerful and allows you much more creative freedom when designing documents that include text and illustrations/graphics--I think this is where Pages outshines Word. However, Word has 10x more templates and is designed more for heavy word processing (the bibliography tool is awesome!).
When I am taking notes for classes, I am usually using Pages b/c I like how it effortlessly handles texts compared to Word. However, when I am writing a paper or report, I still use Word. The reference library in Word is 'right there' at your side w/ dictionary, thesaurus, language translation tools, grammar checker, etc.etc.etc. Pages does a very minimal version of grammar checker (Proofreader they call it) and it does a C+ job compared to Word (B+, A-).
iWork '08 is an excellent suite of office tools, but Office '08 is still the gold standard.
4/5 Stars!
NOTE: I would've rated it 4.5/5 but Amazon doesn't let you rate in 1/2 stars. I deducted 1/2 a star b/c of all the bugs Office '08 had when it was released, and how SLOOOOOW it was to startup. The latest/greatest updates have resolved this and it loads within an adequate amount of time now (Word takes 5-6 sec on Macbook 2.4 w/ 4GB RAM).
 Office 2008 for the Mac September 14, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really wavered between between buying a license to iWork 08 or Office 2008 they're both so good. Although much easier to use, iWork 08 just didn't have all the features I needed, plus I get a lot of Word and Excel docs from colleagues on PC's (you can easily import MS Office docs into iWork 08 but then you have to continually export to return them back).
Office 2008 is very polished and I really like it. Although the price is almost twice the price of iWorks you actually get three licenses in the pack which is a major bonus.
If you are a professional user, need all the MS Office features you had on the PC, need to exchange MS Office documents with other Mac and PC users, or you have at least 3 Macs in your household I would say that Office 2008 is the right choice. Otherwise iWorks is more than adequate for the casual and less demanding user.
 Don't upgrade, VBA is missing, quite slow, non intuitive interface September 12, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
his product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.
Office for MAC September 11, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I switched from using PC's to Macs and it is one of the greatest things a person can do. Unfortunately schools still use windows so I purchased Microsoft Office for Mac so I could use my computer for school. The program runs great and has all the features that the windows version has. Now I can do my homework in peace without all the headaches of a PC. I would recommend this product to anyone who has a Mac.
 A big dissapointment September 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I write for a living. I have used Microsoft Office for years and years. Even though I use Macs exclusively these days, I actually like Microsoft products (you'll pry my Xbox 360 from my cold dead fingers).
But this edition of Office is a turd. Slow to open on a machine with 4 gigs of ram. Crash prone when doing something as complex as search/replace. Irritating interface choices all around. Installing Office even managed to break another bit of software: Final Draft. Office:Mac is just bad news from start to finish.
Last night I gave up, uninstalled Office and switched over to iWork '08. My only gripe with that software while testing it has been the lack of an autosave. But I've tolerated Office:Mac's crap for too long, and I'm willing to train myself to command-s every few lines if it means knowing I won't be irritated while working.
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