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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $109.99
You Save: $39.96 (27%)
New (41) Used (3) from $98.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  320 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
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): 7.1 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: GZA00006
Model: GZA00006
UPC: 882224526302
EAN: 0882224526302
ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Upgrade has excellent features December 22, 2008
Microsoft Office 2008 has aligned itself with MAC. It is more refined, less clumsy and offers more visual cues to increase productivity.
Worth upgrading.
 Works well on the Mac December 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have used Office 95,97,2000,2003 on Windows. I got a MacBook last year, and with it, got I Work'08. I am learning Pages and Numbers - they seem good enough except for a few things I liked here and there about Office - I was willing to live with the differences, until I starting getting Office 2003 Docs. and xls files - and when Numbers and Pages opened them, a few - few - things would not convert well enough. I tried Open Office for the Mac, and had a couple of issues with that, as well.
So, I shelled out the $100 for Office 2008 for Mac and everything is lovely. Back are the few things that were annoyances when I was using I Work'08 - Plus, and this a good thing to me, the Ribbon menu from Office 2007 for Windows is not here (good deal!), so I don't have that learning curve to ascend.
If you need it, get it. It works.
 Worse than the free alternative December 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is really a shamefully bad product.
I bought this because colleagues and customers often send me Microsoft Office documents, and I occasionally had a hard time opening them with NeoOffice or OpenOffice, the two free office alternatives that I had been using.
I was dismayed to find that Microsoft did a significantly worse job importing its own document formats than did the OpenOffice project.
I was also very disappointed by the user interface, which seemed very poorly adapted to the Macintosh and frankly flaky. It was particularly bad at working with Spaces on MacOSX 10.5.
This product is notably inferior to the free alternatives, and I would not recommend that anyone purchase it.
 A step backwards December 20, 2008
This version of Microsoft Office for Mac is not an improvement, or even as good as the 2003 version. When I activate Word, it makes my computer sluggish and "jumpy".
Perspective of an average user December 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Caveat: I know very little about computers, operating systems, etc., so this review is written from the perspective of the average user out there, who just wants things to WORK! I basically use this for word processing folks, and that's it.
As far as I can tell, this is pretty much like Office for the PC. I got the software because I need to be able to write Word documents. I also have Iworks, and I tend to like that a bit more. As another reviewer mentioned, if you absolutely don't need Office, and are debating between this software and iWorks, go to the Apple store and try it out. They are both installed on all the demo machines, and you'll be able to try them both out and see which one suits your needs.
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