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4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 So many 5 Star, 1 Line reviews. Predictable, 2008-06-28
Amazing how MS has people spamming the product ratings here. The bottom line is when this software was released it was *extremely* buggy and Microsoft even acknowledged many of these bugs online, in public fora. They since have made several bugs fixes and a few performance tweaks and the product is more stable as a result, but still not as stable as it should be for public use. Take it from someone who tests major league commercial software applications on a regular basis: there is NO EXCUSE for MS releasing a product that was this poorly tested. The Mac Development team at MS is very small compared to other teams and they are resource starved, so it's less the developers themselves then careless policy on the part of MS management. Were they to put more of their considerable resources into developing this product it would be released on a more regular schedule and likely with better results.
Most of the five star reviews here are either totally bogus, or written by people who write 1 page Word Documents and send email, thinking that makes them qualified to comment on the performance of the whole suite of applications and functionalities. Ask any hard-core Office 2004 user (someone who uses all the apps on a weekly basis) what they think about Office 2008 and the response is almost guaranteed to be negative. For some the only reason to update is that Office 2004, when used on Intel Macs, is really slow compared to older PPC Macs (which Office 2004 was designed for). So for some speed may make this a requirement, but don't expect smooth sailing; choppy seas are ahead until the next major update arrives.
Even at this stage (June 2008) this product is late-beta quality IMO. Almost ready for prime-time. By the time the second major update rolls around, it will be what it should have been from the start. Buying this product by the end of Summer 2008, should be a much safer bet for people. By then I would suggest with the fixes that should be coming, this will be a 4 star product. Not before then!
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 SP1 Makes a big difference, 2008-06-28
Out of the box, Office:Mac is really buggy and has lots of minor annoying issues. However, with SP1 most of the major problems have been fixed.
Lack of VBA support is a huge pain, but rumor is MS will fix this in the next version of Office:Mac
EndNote Cite While You Write now works with Word 2008 so this makes is much better for me to use. SP1 is required for CWYW from EndNote to work.
Entourage is pretty terrible, and I am a longtime Outlook junkie on PC. I use Mail.app instead. Entourage has a poor Non-Mac UI, is slow, crash prone and not compatible with regular outlook .pst files so what is the point? Entourage also doesn't work well with exchange either.
Word, Excel and Powerpoint are pretty good overall unless you need VBA compatibility.
User interface of Office is really inconcsistent now between the versions and platforms. It is a real pain in a mixed environment. You have to learn where things are on each platform and version. Thus if you are in a mixed environment of Macs with Mac Office 2004, Mac Office 2008 and PC's with both Office XP and Office 2007 you will have a hard time finding commands (or remembering where they are in each version). It is painfully obvious that the Mac Office developers do not communicate very well with the Office 2007 developers.
Good enough, 2008-06-26
Thus far I've only used word and excel, and both only for very light work. I do find it a little annoying that it defaults to the docx format. I suppose in the future this might be the best, and I wonder if perhaps microsoft made it this way in order to force this standard.
I've had difficulty opening a microsoft doc from earlier versions once. It wasn't really a problem, but required a few extra mouse clicks and commands that I didn't expect to have to include.
All in all, the program is fine, but it's the compatibility and cross platform use that remains a concern. I've not used it widely enough to get a sense for this, but I would say expect to run into at least a few annoyances along the way
 Incredible fast shipping, 2008-06-25
I was so anxious to get my product that I didn't realize that not even 2 days past when my order arrived
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 I want my the old word back!!, 2008-06-24
I recently purchased Word 2008. I find it to be confusing and to have an overload of choices that I don't need. I can't seem to make Word do simple things. In short, I hate it and want my old Word back!
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