Microsoft to End Support for Office 2008 for Mac on April 9

My wife has office for her Mac, but somehow I just cant do it. I have the apple office suit and for my home use it works perfectly. No MS or Google anything on my apples, thank you.

Why is that? Did they sleep with your wife, or run over your dog? Hell I am using a mac (instead of linux) BECAUSE it can run MS Office.

Never needed support for it anyway...

Read support to mean security fixes

They're still supporting Windows XP, and they won't support Office 2008? That's a shame on people who can't/won't update to the recent version.

More predictable and narrow-minded views of MS Office rife with Apple fanaticism and inexperience in the real world. Office is what separates you "home" users from the rest of us in the enterprise and academia arenas. Keep your consumer crap like Pages and Numbers for garage sale fliers and those silly-assed home inventory lists. Those of us that need to exchange documents and interact with reality will continue to use the real thing.

Edit:

Thus, the point is that most of the rest of the world still uses Windows machines, and, in order to communicate competently and easily with that work world, some of us use - and have to use - Office for Mac. I do, and actually, professionally, it is a deal breaker for me, as every organisation and university I have ever worked for use hardly anything other than Windows. hence, Office for Mac will always be on my computer, irrespective of what else lives there.

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Okay... According to previous releases they are coming out with a new version every 3-4 years and it costs $140-200. That's at max 200/3 = $66.67 a year. Compared to Office 365 for $100 a year... How is this worth it?

I have nothing against Microsoft Office. I've used the Windows versions in school and they were extremely easy to use.

But Office 2008 for Mac is complete garbage, and using it is a nightmare in my opinion. For the Mac side Pages & Numbers is a much better alternative or better yet Google Docs.