| Office 2008 for Mac, Home and Student Edition (Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £107.99
Buy New: £74.00
You Save: £33.99 (31%)
Buy New from £74.00
Avg. Customer Rating:   (32 reviews)
Sales Rank: 14
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: GZA00006
Model: GZA00006
UPC: 882224526302
EAN: 0882224526302
ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 I've downgraded to 2004 now. June 26, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm an English student and I need Word to type up my essays and my dissertation. I upgraded thinking "this one will be more stable and faster". WRONG. So wrong. It was ludicrously slow to load. On average 45-70 seconds to launch on a new MacBook, which is unacceptable. Once running the software has glitches and takes a long time to alter between the new interface ribbon at the top. It crashed on nearly every save. Needing this for my work, which I cannot afford to be losing large parts of I decided, ultimately, to sell my copy online and reinstall my older, supposedly slower 2004 version.
A very dissatisfied student customer.
If you need Office, stick with the 2004 one. It may run slower on an Intel based Mac, but it's far more stable and usable. Trust me, my work load and dissertation tells me so.
Office 2008 is just rubbish May 26, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I upgraded (?) to Office 2008 from Office 2004 and everything crashed ! I loaded up the new Office SP patch and Office wouldn't open. I have now uninstalled this sad, broken, unfinished program and I am back to Office 2004. It is a shame that Microsoft don't seem to learn from their mistakes as this instability was the main reason I stopped using a PC !
1/10 - must try harder
 Stay away ! May 25, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There not much more to say about Office 2008 than: Stay away - and be happy with the version you already have ! It is so slow, it locks and crashes, ... I just don't understand how Micorsoft could release this - it is, at best, a beta version !
Beware.... May 20, 2008
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought the 2008 version hoping for a Universal Binary speed boost..... the 2008 is so slow, i've switched back to office 2004. Running the old version under rosetta is actually faster than running the new version.
I'd hold off on buying this until Microsoft release a performance update.
Extremely slow, confused interface, limited feature set and prone to crashes May 20, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
What more could you want?
Excel:
Several 'must have' features have been removed from Excel. It is also spectacularly slow so as to be unusable. The one upside: it is so bad, the MacBU team at Microsoft has connected me to someone to help me speed up basic operations (like adding graphs).
Word: Much slower. Crashes more. Runs out of memory (I have 4Gb on my machine, good luck)
Powerpoint: Did I mention slow? Couple of really nice features (based on OmniGraffle) to help you design / draw charts and diagrams. But not a patch on the smoothness of Keynote (which I hate anyway). I would give powerpoint 2 stars, maybe 2.5.
Overall it really deserves a one star. It has made me much less productive. I find myself running VMware and switching into Excel 2007 for Windows. As soon as I find my office 2004 discs I will be downgrading back to the previous version.
Extremely disappointing. Extremely confusing. And extremely not worthy of being on my machine or yours.
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