Microsoft Launches Mac Office 2008
Amidst all the Apple announcements, we neglected to mention that Microsoft officially launched Mac Office 2008 yesterday. Alongside the release, they've relaunched the Mactopia website. Microsoft Office was made available for preorder last week, and is now shipping.
Macworld provides a look at Microsoft Office 2008
Surprisingly, Word gets several major enhancements in Office 2008, the first version of Microsofts productivity suite to run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs. Those changes include a new document format, a simplified toolbar, and a new toolbox that combines palettes for managing formatting, clip art, iPhoto images, research, and bibliographies. But the biggest improvement is the addition of a new view option called Publishing Layout.
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And hopefully the last Office I ever buy. Perhaps they'll be a different way of looking at these issues in 4 years (or so...).
They have done so much short of giving them away. If you are paying full price for this software you aren't paying attention.
The backhanded jab that it was the FINAL app. to go native was funny as well.
Would be funnier if it were accurate - Quicken is a major app, and it still isn't native, though a replacement is in the works.Anyway, ~David posted a bunch of good Office 2008 screenshots here:
http://www.jcxp.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=25292
Office v X was one of the first major apps to have made the transition from OS 9 to native OS X.
Office v 2008 was one of the last major apps to have made the transition from PPC to UB.
I don't mean to take a jab at Office 2008, it has a new UI and much more features than any other Office release for the Mac platform, but I was expecting more from a Intel native release. Anyone else feel the same?
I've been using both Microsoft Office 2008 and Microsoft Office X, but I find Microsoft Office X a lot faster. Office X has much faster load times on my Macbook and uses less resources than Office 2008.
I don't mean to take a jab at Office 2008, it has a new UI and much more features than any other Office release for the Mac platform, but I was expecting more from a Intel native release. Anyone else feel the same?
Note: the loading time of an app is not the most important speed issue of an app.
An app like PowerPoint MUST now operate at excellent speed using large media files on an Intel Mac, and the load time of it is not too important.
Get a Mac SE30 with System 6.0.1 on it. That boots a hell of a lot quicker than a Mac Pro 3.2 GHz.
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