First Look: Office 2008 For Mac From Microsoft.
Microsoft didn’t learn from Vista’s crazy quilt of different versions which turns off buyers and attracts criticism.
Guess what? Microsoft’s Office 2008 for Mac caught the same disease. Choose your poison. $500 to $150. Either way, you get what you pay for. Sometimes.
Don’t hate me because I’m blonde. And don’t hate me because I love using Microsoft Office for Mac. It’s an addiction I don’t want to break.
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4 Reader Comments
iggy pence said:
What a crock, dude. Macs are in corporate use all over the country and have been for years and market share (not just personal) has been growing rapidly. Why? Macs are more secure than Windows PCs, Macs have a total cost of ownership which is less than PCs, Mac users are typically more productive than PCs. Your uninformed comment about IPv6 is just that—uninformed. The vast majority of corporate PCs run Windows XP. How good is IPv6 there? Crummy. How many corporations even worry about IPv6? Not many. There isn’t much that a Windows PC can do that a Mac cannot within the average business. But the Mac can sure do more than any Windows PC (since it runs Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux—all at the same time if needed). Grow up and evangelize your nonsense elsewhere.
Or, drink the kool aid and buy a Mac.
Kim said:
“If your business operation depends on Microsoft’s VB on a Mac, don’t upgrade.”
If your business operations depend on a Mac, you’re using the wrong operating system. They may be fine and dandy for personal use, but my experience in large organizations has proven to me that Macs are not-quite-ready-for-primetime when it comes to large networks, especially large integrated networks. The pussyfooting Apple did regarding the implementation of the IPv6 standard is but one indication. If you want to over-spend, you can find a lot more productive ways to do it.
DebbieSLP said:
I have just started using MS Word for Mac 2008. I am baffled and frustrated no END that I can no longer have a different first page header. I have scoured the internet and help windows for hours (when before I would have created my header in about three seconds with Word 2004) and find no way to do this. I can have all kinds of stupid looking cover pages with idiotic cutesy photos (barf, for a professional report), or I can have my header on all odd or even pages (this is not a book), but NOT just on the first page. No Way. For fifteen years, all of my reports have had my professional header on the first page only. It seems that Microsoft has decided FOR me that they do not want my reports to look like this. Why would they take away this tiny little functional formatting choice? WHY??? Why not just add features, why take others away? It’s not like this different-first-header feature took up lots of memory. I just do not understand, and it is extremely frustrating. I do not want to change the look of my reports, Microsoft!! Why did you do this?!?!
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Eric said:
I’m with DebbieSLP. I only found this page because I was searching for help on this same problem. A huge WTF to M$ for this one.