Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Jan 2007 22:49 UTC
The Mac Macintosh Business Unit announced its intent to deliver the first Universal version of Office for Mac for PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs - Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2007, Office 2008 for Mac will allow Mac users to work smarter and more efficiently with new and enhanced tools that are simple, intuitive and easily discovered.
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Let's be honest--on today's Macs, you're better off running Win-Office 2000/XP/2003 under Parallels than running Mac-Office 2004. Even on the PPC side, Mac-Office is vs. VirtualPC+Win-Office is at best a wash. You shouldn't have to run Windows on your Mac to get work done.
Office 2004 is inexplicably slow and clunky. PowerPoint--the only part I used regularly--was laggardly at opening even small, text-only presentations on my iBook. Add in some diagrams and things went down the toilet. Of course, if you copy-pasted images in Mac Office and then tried to open the resulting files in Win Office, you'd be in for a world of pain. It got so bad that I turned to converting everything to PDF (via Windows PowerPoint+CutePDF or just LaTeX+pdflatex) and using Preview to run the presentations.
With iWork 07 rumored to include a spreadsheet application, MacBU's got some actual competition this time around. Heck, OpenOffice.org is still unbearably slow and ugly, but not so much that Office 2004 is worth its price. I truly hope that MacBU gets their act together with Office 2008 and delivers a quality product that both matches (or exceeds) the usability of Office 2007 and fits with OS X.