enough so that for the first time ever Microsoft has some real competition for office suites on the Mac." Gandalf90125 - Saturday, Februlink "iWork is. Microsoft has more than caught up and will continue to be secure in their Apple meanwhile still hasĪn appreciable footing against Office 2008 with their iWork suite, but for now Most users, business and homeĪlike, will find something they like in Office 2008. Move a great deal of copies, but they didn’t. Of Office 2004 and slapped the Office 2008 name on to it and still managed to Ultimately Microsoft could have just made an Intel edition Massive difference, but Office 2008 is definitely easier to use thanks to the Aqua is gone which is nice, the GUI hasīeen streamlined and made more Mac-like, which is even better. If nothing else everyone will appreciate the improvements to Those in the pickle will have a hard choice. Support which is critical for maintaining parity with Office 2007, but the loss For those groups they will be in a pickle, Office 2008 adds OOXML Office 2008 impossible to recommend for mixed-environment businesses making And the lack of VBA support makes Excel makes Only application outside of Entourage that has received an appreciable Praise for home use aren’t notable for businesses, with PowerPoint being the Will have a harder time swallowing the rest of Office, many of the features we To use it over Apple’s software if you aren’t using Exchange. Incarnations which will make Exchange users happy, but there’s still no reason Still hobbled by lacking functionality and old age, it’s much improved over past Gallery, the various elements compliment their respective programs well and theįor business users the case is a bit different. Microsoft has found a solid feature to add to the whole suite with the element To PowerPoint’s artwork will prove to be beneficial to those same groups. Similarly the graphical upgrades to Excel’s charts and Word’s page layout features finally make it practical to put togetherĭocuments more advanced than simple write-ups and the bibliography tools willīe a boon to students. Presentations, then you’re going to struggle to find much value in Office 2008.īut once we begin talking about expanding functionality and improving usabilityįor home users in particular, Office 2008 is a massive set Word processing, the simplest of spreadsheets, and the flattest of Using it for more than the bare essentials. The key to maximizing what Office 2008 is capable of is Those still on PowerPC, or even just as an academic exercise where Office 2004Īnd Office 2008 are comparable in speed and the difference comes down toįeatures? Office 2008 isn’t a must-have upgrade, but as we’ve seen it’s more Translation makes it a much better experience.īut how about for those users that can bear Rosetta, or Purchased an Intel Mac in the last two years. Stated when we started off this review, its components are now universalĪpplications and that alone will sell the suite to the number of users who have So how does Office 2008 for Mac stack up in the end? As we
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