Microsoft Office 2008 Home and Student Edition for Mac

Good Product

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Office 2008 Home mac

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Pros: price, runs on mac, no difference in reliability Read More

Microsoft Office 2008 Has Steep Learning Curve, But Is Worth The Effort

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Pros: Great price, three licenses, better user interface, SmartArt for designing graphics. 

Cons: Everything has been moved, making it difficult to use right out of the box. 

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Microsoft Office 2008 has a steep learning curve, but overall it's a great product with an excellent price.  Read More

It's ok...

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Pros: Native support for Microsoft Office files (of course)

Cons: Hard to use, bothers you with updates, iWork suite is better value for Macs.

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Only buy this if you need it desperately for your Mac, otherwise use it in bootcamp or get the iWork suite instead. Read More

Slow, unstable, less compatible with Office for Windows than other aps

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Pros: Has more shapes than iWork '09
Looks nicer than NO or OO (so what)

Cons: Compatibility with MSOW weak
Stability poor
Dual window support weak
Interface clumsy
Weak PDF export

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If I had a choice again I would not buy it. Supposed better compatibility with Office for Windows, turned out to be wrong.  The other suites are generally better Read More

Microsoft Office 2008

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Pros: None.

Cons: you need a class to learn how to use it Read More