Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Homework and Home Work will be easier than ever with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition. Get better results faster and create high-quality documents you can be proud of, with less frustration and more enjoyment. Five Great Reasons to Get Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition: Universal applications: Office 2008 runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. Intuitive… Product details and pricing info |
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3 Customer Reviews Posted
- Where are all the previous reviews for this item???????? I read pages of negative reviews just weeks ago!
- I've been considering purchasing Microsoft Office 2008 for Macs, and just weeks ago there were pages of (mostly negative) reviews; now there are only two reviews (the oldest from two days ago...???) Did Microsoft use its leverage to force Mr. Bezos and Amazon to remove all those negative reviews? Most disappointing to find those useful comments removed. I have not used this product, and gave it the low rating as Amazon required the star rating in order to post this comment.
- 2008-09-06, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Buggy
- I've never used such a buggy application. Too many to list. Still, overall it does what it's supposed to do. Sadly, it's not as good as iWork.
- 2008-09-06, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Did MS declare war on Apple, again?
- First, where did all of the reviews of this product go? Last time I checked the number was large and the consensus was fairly negative.
With Mac sales up and MS always paranoid, did MS decide that the Mac version of Office could be released with reduced features and more bugs than usual? This software reminds me of what we endured the darkest days of Apple hardware/software in the mid-90s. As examples of feature cuts, Excel 2008 has neither Solver nor any of the analysis add-ins. Fairly simple operations in Excel, such as drawing a graph, sometimes now involve a substantial amount of time to complete. I can't recall the last time that attempting to draw a simple scatterplot produced a warning that due to the "complexity" of the graph, I might experience a long wait. Similar operations were essentially instantaneous in the 2004 version.
The only thing I have found to like about the new Excel is the increase in the number of cells in the spreadsheet.
In Word, as in the bad old days, simply scrolling is an adventure. The screen does not re-draw correctly even in a short document with simple formatting. Be careful about scrolling and then deleting. You may be very surprised by which portion of text disappears.
I've been a Mac user since System 6, and I'm hard pressed to remember an "upgrade" this stripped of features and full of bugs. - 2008-09-04, 9 of 10 people found this review helpful, Rated:
