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 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £104.71
Buy New: £74.00
You Save: £30.71 (29%)
New (15) from £74.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 87.6 x 64.8 x 15.6
MPN: GZA00006
Model: GZA00006
UPC: 882224526302
EAN: 0882224526302
ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: brand new, never used.
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 Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad. October 29, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.
Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.
However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.
Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.
I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.
Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.
 So Slow September 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.
Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.
 Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow September 12, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.
They should be ashamed. September 5, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this because the kids need it for school and am amazed how dreadful it is.
First of all when installed it needs a 160Mb "critical" update.
This failed using the auto update (at 155MB). I then downloaded the latest update as a stand alone file from Microsoft. This failed at it could not find any office installation on my computer!
I tried the auto update again and this time it worked, but only after a cryptic "Microsoft does not understand this error" message.
This takes it to 12.1.
I now states that a 12.1.1 update is "Critical" and is another 150MB download.
The current version is actually 12.2 so goodness knows how long it will take to get there.
I have used Macs for 10+ years and never have I seen such shoddy, slapdash work.
They should be ashamed and Mr Jobs should have a word in their ear.
I haven't used it yet and it has been a day wasted so far.
Buy anything else unless you really, really need it.
I would give it no stars if this system allowed it.
Don't upgrade, consider not buying Office August 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This new version of Office has too many problems. In addition to the slow performance the lack of compatability with other versions (meaning settings have to be changed to save files in the old format) makes day to day operation a pain. Added to that network operation on classic Office files is very uncertain.
I have tried three service pack versions. The first one wouldn't open Excel XLS files through the network, then after the next service pack it did, after the next fix pack it didn't.
Files seem to randomly get saved into last used save folders when they have been opened from somewhere else. If you want basic Word processing and spreadsheet analysis with presentation save money and buy iWork. The learning curve will be shorter than the frustration trying to make Office 2008 work. And you can install on five computers.iWork '08 Family Pack
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