Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Business Edition
- Develop professional documents with Word building blocks and commonly-used business templates
- Build informative, accurate spreadsheets with easy-to-use, preformatted Excel formulas
- Manage e-mail, daily appointments and tasks with Entourage
- Apply SmartArt graphics to create polished presentations and reports
- Connect with others through Microsoft Office Exchange Server support
Product Description
Whether you have a Mac or an Intel PC, you can swiftly manage your entire business with Office 2008 for Mac. This product includes user-friendly business softwareAmazon.com Product Description
Your business is everything to you–an extension of your life, an expression of your passion. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition is packed with all the tools and features you need to make your vision a success. Get core Office applications to help you man… More >>
Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Business Edition
July 26th, 2010 at 5:28 am
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July 26th, 2010 at 7:45 am
First, I had a tendency to hate microsoft products and hence my view of looking at this software may be a little more deviant from a regular user. I already have iwork and also open office3, but I had to work with refworks for my research work and hence required this product.
Forget the pros, I have a lot of cons:
1. Who puts “help” item as the first in a right click menu? When you go around correcting spellings, the first choice is help, instead of the correct spelling. Yes, Microsoft thinks I am dumb, and I think they are dumb!!
2. Almost all users using this software are long term mac users. The menu and shortcuts are different from all other applications. For instance, font is CMD + D and not CMD + T.
3. Launch speed is terrible.
4. The working speed keeps you waiting sometimes. [I have a 4GB ram]
5. You have to perform updates often.
6. From a usability point of view, powerpoint has a hundred different issues that any lame user can point out.
7. It costs a lot.
8. For god sake, it cannot search backwards, and it gives you an annoying alert at the end of the search. CMD + G is not find next, but GOTO.
9. It crashes!!
Nutshell : If some one is paying you for this, take it. Paying out of your own pocket does not sounds like a good idea for this product.
Open office has many problems too, for instance bad launch time, and compatibility issues.
Iwork [ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014X2UAK?ie=UTF8&tag=fall09laptops-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0014X2UAK ] is not perfect either, but it is definitely a better deal than Office, and is way cheaper.
Rating: 2 / 5
July 26th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Software is not shiny boxes or fancy ad campaigns. The basic office suite applications, Word, Excel and Power Point, are only millions of ones and ohs put on a DVD that can be reproduced exactly like the preceding one. Once the first unit is developed, each subsequent unit essentially costs the software developer nothing. Consumers are a different story however. The developer can stimulate demand and sell millions of copies of that one original for lots of money. Microsoft Office is an example of such a software product.
But what happens when everybody already has copies of Microsoft Office on their PCs and Macs? The answer is simple-make slight modifications of the product and rename it. On the Mac version alone in addition to Microsoft Office for Mac Business Edition, there are a Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition, and a Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, all with prices significantly higher than the competition, but with the most expensive program costing several times the cheapest.
At the end of the day what justifies this price differential? The answer is nothing. These office suites, with minor variations, are essentially the same ones and ohs that were created for the the original unit. What is changed is one word on the box-”Business”. That is a lot to pay for that word. A businessman will get as much utility out of the cheapest of the Microsoft Office suite as from the most expensive.
But that is not the end of the story.
In office software there are three prices-expensive, moderate and free. A moderately price office suite for the Mac is iWork ’09. It is pretty comparable to Office for Mac, only substantially cheaper than Microsoft’s least expensive version. Free however is the wave of the future and Google Documents offers free word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software- the components of the modern office suite. Moreover Google documents can both read and export to their Microsoft equivalents (as can iWork 09). It lacks many of the bells and whistles Microsoft loads into Office. But do you really use those bells and whistles? Most users don’t know they are there and have little need for them in any event.
How many times will Microsoft go to the well with the Office name before we all wise up? Hard to say but they are betting on it lasting a few years longer.
Rating: 2 / 5
July 26th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Terrible software. if you have a Mac with Snow Leopard it does not work well. very slow. if you have a Mac. I recommed iwork. iwork simply is terrific for my mac. now coming with Office 2010 but, nope not for mac. next iwork? yeah! I’ll buy,
Rating: 2 / 5
July 26th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
This is basically the same basic product you would get if you bought the basic package. The other programs do not make it worth the extra price. Office is a great product and basically essential if you’re doing business across multiple platforms. But at a much higher cost you really need to think twice about whether the business edition is right for you or not. I’d give the product itself 5 stars but the price is too high.
Rating: 2 / 5
July 26th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
By far the worst, most confusing software download I have ever seen in 30 years of dealing with computers. If you decide you have to have this software, do yourself a favor and call the help line right away. Don’t follow the published directions.
Rating: 1 / 5