Media, a management tool for digital photos, music and videos, as a A $630 Special Media Edition adds Microsoft Expression
Upgrade $320) includes the new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, andĮntourage. Office 2008 comes in three "flavours": the standard version ($540, Mac versions of the suite, limiting compatibility for some users. Has dropped the support for Visual Basic macros available in previous As a result,Įntourage users may still feel like second-class Exchange citizensĬompared with Windows Outlook users. Users to move their data from a Windows system to a Mac. The new version of Entourage stillĬan't import Outlook-style PST files, which makes it difficult for ICal calendar built into the Mac, it does less well with Exchange While Entourage now works well with Exchange calendars and with the Other users' schedules to plan a meeting when everyone is free. Users on a Microsoft Exchange server, such as the ability to check No Feature Parity fo EntourageĮntourage, Office 2008's equivalent of the Windows package's Up with SmartArt graphics and easier animations. Ledger sheets library of pre-made invoices and other documents, along They also provide more powerful layout and formatting options Improvements generally aimed at making existing features easier to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint each sport a set of relatively subtle Windows, but they are not yet out for the equivalent Mac Office (Converters for the new file formats areĪvailable for users of Microsoft Office 2000, 2002, and 2003 for The Office 2008 applications to save in the older Office file formatsįor compatibility with the majority of users (on both Windows and Mac) But as with last year's Windows version, I recommend resetting Like the Windows Office 2007 version, the new Mac Office saves filesįormats by default it will happily exchange files with Office 2007 PowerPC Macs, however, it will feel a bit slower than the previous As a result, it loadsĪnd runs somewhat faster than Office 2004 on those Macs. Has been redesigned with their hardware in mind. Users of recent Intel-powered Macs will be pleased that Office '08
Publishing layout view, perhaps a response to easy-to-use page layoutįeatures in Apple's low-cost, Word-compatible Pages word processor (part of In Word, these provide quick access to features such as
The elements gallery is new: a series of tabs between the toolbarĪnd the page. The handy formatting palette found in the last Mac Office versions, nowĮxpanded with new palettes for objects, reference tools, and more, Office '08 retains classic menus and a single-width toolbar, along with Replacing them with a series of what Microsoft refers to as "ribbons". Update, which did away with traditional menus and toolbars entirely, This new version is a less radical revision than last year's Windows New file formats, Mac users had to wait until now for the new Microsoft
Users got a 2007-branded update that featured a new user interface and But most of themĬontinue to be customers of Microsoft's Office.
Separate from the Microsoft Windows-using majority. Mac users have long had a complicated love-hate