Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Expert Reviews

After a series of delays, Microsoft plans to release Office for Mac 2008 to brick-and-mortar and online stores on January 15, making this the first update in about four years. We've tested beta versions of the new applications over the last month ...

Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 offers good looks that encompass deeper features than other Mac productivity software ; business users get full Word mail merge, robust Excel spreadsheets, and better tools in Entourage ; amateur desktop publishing ...

Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 is pricey ; saves work in new file formats by default ; Excel drops Visual Basic support ; features don't match the depth of those in Office 2007 for Windows

Office for Mac 2008 may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less costly alternatives.

The 12.1.2 update for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac includes a patch for a critical Excel 2008 security problem. The download weighed in at 491MB for me so depending on your downstream speed, it may take a while to get the file. Of the Excel 2008 ...

Does Office 2008 deliver the goods?

Microsoft Office 2008 is the latest release of Microsoft's productivity suite, which includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, email and calendaring tools.

Elements Gallery and Toolbox greatly improve discoverability and usability, New Word Publishing Layout view and templates, Native support for Office 2007's Open XML file format, Universal code runs natively on Intel Macs, SmartArt graphics and chart ...

Elements Gallery and Toolbox greatly improve discoverability and usability, New Word Publishing Layout view and templates, Native support for Office 2007's Open XML file format, Universal code runs natively on Intel Macs, SmartArt graphics and chart ...

Considered as a list of new features, Office 2008 is an evolutionary improvement upon Office 2004. But in terms of discoverability and usability, it's a clear win

turned me off of that old standard, Photoshop, so maybe I was just ready for some change

The first Intel-native version of Office for the Mac may be the platform's most powerful office suite, but its improvements are underwhelming, and it suffers from dropped features and surprising bugs.

Can Microsoft take the lead in office software on the Mac?

Interface, My Day widget, usability

Not much

If you are a Mac owner and a heavy Microsoft 2004 user, Office:Mac 2008 is not only worth the upgrade, but a veritable must

Meet the new office: same as the old office, but with prettier outfits.

Excel is less cluttered in the new interface compared to Excel 2004, but it caters more strongly towards home projects, making it feel closer to Works than a powerful spreadsheet. Belying its appearance is the ability to cope with more cells, and a ...

Extensive media handling, basic image correction and plenty of options for sharing… Expression Media is a great application.

Clean interface ; Broad format and metadata support ; Lots of options for sharing ; Free upgrade to Expression Media 2

No upgrade over iView MediaPro 3 ; Expensive

Metadata support is rich - EXIF, IPTC and XMP standards are all supported - so any time spent punching data such as author, location and keywords into metadata fields using the template-capable system in Expression Media isn't wasted; other apps ...