![]() ![]() If your Mac is 2004 vintage and you have no plans on upgrading any time soon, then maybe you should just stick with MS Office 2004 too. Nearly all of the complaints seem to come from people running Office on state-of-the-ark machines with processors that really should be in a museum. I think this latest version is excellent, but then I'm running it on an Intel Mac with Leopard that's less than two years old. MS Office love it or loath it is the de facto standard productivity suite for 90% of the world's leading companies, so to dismiss it as worthless is also idiotic. ĩ0% of the replies to this thread are just plain immature.which doesn't support the Mac at all these days. The real reason I have WinXP on the machine in the first place is SAS. Since I actually need "real Excel" I guess the best option will be Office 2007 running under Parallel/Windows, which is what I should have done anyhow. It can do many things and I hope Apple keeps expanding it. That's what PDFs are for.Ĭould most enterprise users get by with Apple Numbers, yes they could. doc files through Google ring a bell? My email throws away Office files because of viruses.īeen there done that. Office documents can't travel 50 feet inside the same company without the formatting going to sh**. But its Excel is largely a clone of the real Excel. I grant your point that NeoOffice can be a pain. Entourage, however, does have more bells and whistles and works with Exchange better. ![]() On the other hand, Keynote kicks Powerpoint's butt, and I prefer Apple's Mail to Entourage. Does that mean Word is worth the price? Probably not, but it is a better application. Pages is cool for the price, but it is not Word. Since, I need to share Office documents that is a big deal. If you use any sort of fancy formatting, NeoOffice and iWork will not keep true to the original Office formatting. In addition, I use Office for cross platform compatibility. However, on usability it is hardly superior. Don't get me wrong, for a free application, it is great. Moreover, NeoOffice is pretty much a copy of an older version of Office for Windows. ![]() Give examples on how Office 2008 is inferior to both NeoOffice and iWork? Maybe your experience is completely different then mine, but NeoOffice is dog slow on a Mac compared to Office 2008. Since Microsoft plans on dumping its current Macro language in the next version of Office for Windows, it made little sense to delay Office for the Mac by an additional year to port a language that would soon be irrelevant on Windows as well.Ĭome on you jest. Microsoft had to make decisions on how to best get the product to market with all the rewriting it had to do. It is a real pain to switch to tools less capable and unfamiliar to you. Apple's tools are nice, but they are not as feature complete as some of the other tools out there ( at least at the time). Microsoft was well into the development of this version of Office, when Apple said, "Hey, guess what we are switching to Intel processors." Not only did Microsoft have to retool the software for the new architecture, it had to switch to Apple's developer tools to do it. With that said, I really don't blame Microsoft for dropping the support. Then again, I primarily use Word over anything else in the package.Īs far as Macros go, I never really used them, so the lack of Macros support doesn't effect me. Enough to sell out full price for it: probably not. That is not to say there aren't some minor bugs, but over all I like the changes. I especially like the new tool bar layouts and the publishing tools. I find Microsoft did a really good job refining the Interface. In truth, I like Word a lot better then 2004. I got an education discount on the software. "Your Microsoft Software has no updates at this time. So what does this achieve anyway? Jeesoos.Īnd I just searched for this update. The other 10,000 would work great on a Mac. Next time, who needs Microprick anyway.Ĭlearly Office 08 is an assault on the Mac. What if Word were deleted?įortunately NeoOffice provides an Access clone free of charge. Ohhhh No, the Mac users can't get their hands on MS' precious Access product which is an INTEGRAL part of Office.īasically I argue MS could be sued for selling "Office" without Access. That's why I have Keynote from Apple.ĪND WHAT ABOUT MICROSOFT ACCESS 2008? WOULD THAT BE ASKING TOO MUCH? Powerpoint, it goes without saying, is an atrocity. Moving on, Excel 2008 is a complete joke. ![]() Word is OK, and thank goodness the Equation Editor is included (which I use constanty).ĮXCEPT WHEN WORD SAYS MY DISK IS FULL. I just got an Office 2008 license as a student.īasically it is inferior to NeoOffice, and also iWork 08 (which I have). ![]()
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