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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition Upgrade
Sunday, 17. January 2010. 10:03
- Streamlined user interface runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs
- Open XML file formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and other features that result in compatibility and file fidelity
- Drag-and-drop digital asset management, batch conversion and tagging, and built-in archiving and backup capabilities help you manage over 100,000 files and hundreds of format types across multiple storage devices
- Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office enables you to automate Office 2008 with more than 70 pre-defined actions built to simplify your work and extend your productivity
- Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, Microsoft Server Exchange Support, Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office
Product Description
Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition features the complete Office 2008 for Mac productivity suite specially packaged with a full version of Microsoft Expression Media for Mac to empower the media-savvy Mac user with smart digital asset management tools. Expression Media is a powerful and customizable image management software application for importing, annotating, organizing, archiving, searching and distributing users’ ever-growing collections of digital files… More >>
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition Upgrade
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January 17th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Apparently Bill Gates thinks we haven’t suffered enough. Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) has been completely removed from the latest version of Office for the Mac. Unfortunately, I found this out AFTER wasting my money on this useless new product. DON’T BUY IT!!!!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
January 17th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
This is an essentially non-functional program that will waste hours of your time. You’re better off learning a new program for spreadsheets and charts.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 17th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Office 2008 for the Mac has been out over a year and it still is full of bugs and lacks the functionality of the version of Office for the PC! In particular, EXCEL is far inferior as Microsoft eliminated any support for macros or Visual Basic in the Mac version. For a home user with simple needs this is not a serious drawback. For anyone who exchanges files in a business environment forget about this product. It is not fully compatible and crashes often. It will drive you crazy and let you down when you are in the middle of a project with a tight deadline.
WORD also crashes a lot and causes the loss of your work. A message will come up saying “WORD has to close unexpectedly,” and that’s it. All your work is gone. Back in 1980 we accepted this from computers and saved our work religiously. This is 2009 and this kind of incompetence is unacceptable.
It is nothing short of dishonesty to claim that Office for the Mac provides the same functionality as Office for the PC. The latter is light-years ahead in terms of sophistication and stability. Don’t believe any salesman who claims the two versions are equivalent. The Mac version is primitive by comparison.
If you are thinking about using a Mac for business think again. The only way to do that is to get the PC version of Office and run it under Boot Camp or Parallels. Of course that means spending several hundred dollars more for the Windows OS plus Parallels. And all this after you just paid a $1000 premium for a Mac with the same physical functionality as a top of the line PC (eg the Thinkpad).Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Rating: 1 / 5
January 17th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Excellent product, very pleased, works well, good price and delivered as promised in a virgin box.
Rating: 4 / 5
January 17th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
I purchased MS Office 2008 for a PowerMac G5 (with OS X 10.5.6). It’s much slower loading than Office 2004 and doesn’t appear to offer anything new of substance. I don’t like the new interface much, but I’ll get used to it. It does, of course, work better with the new file types, but I resented being forced into an upgrade by Microsoft — especially one that performs worse (sound like Vista anyone?).
Rating: 3 / 5