Finally there is an update to Office for Mac users: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
. In the world of PCs Microsoft Office is the industry standard for business, over the years it has been updated and improved keeping pace with its ever growing base users and their demands. On the Mac side it stagnated with no real changes since Office 2004 for Mac until this year –Yeah?
Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition(for the average consumer)
Word 2008, Excel® 2008, PowerPoint® 2008, Entourage® 2008, Messenger for Mac and Open XML File Formats (Office 2007 Compatible) Universal for Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs
Office 2008 for Mac (mid grade useful on Microsoft Exchange Networks)
Word 2008, Excel® 2008, PowerPoint® 2008, Entourage® 2008
Messenger for Mac, Open XML File Formats
(Office 2007 Compatible), Universal for Intel- and PowerPC-
based Macs, Microsoft Exchange Server Support and Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office
Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition (for “Special” Mac People)
Word 2008, Excel® 2008, PowerPoint® 2008, Entourage® 2008
Messenger for Mac, Open XML File Formats
(Office 2007 Compatible), Universal for Intel- and PowerPC-
based Macs, Microsoft Exchange Server Support, Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office and Microsoft® Expression® Media
They claim that Office 2008 for Mac and the Windows-based 2007 Office System will share the Open XML file formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and many other features that will “result in compatibility and file fidelity”. That means less time trying to figure out why the Windows people don’t see the same thing the Mac people do. I have always been annoyed by Mac people because they have this cavalier attitude “well it looks fine on my Mac so it must be something wrong with windows.. Yet they are usually clueless on why it works on their Mac. Most compatibility problems I saw came from not adding a 3 letter file extension at the end of a file created on a Mac. If you created a file called “service letter” in Office for Mac 2004 and hit save, it would be saved as “service letter” if you emailed it to a windows user, they would get the file and be unable to open it because it required the file extension that would identify the file as Word file (*.doc). Adding “.doc” to “service letter” gives you “service letter.doc” and Word on Windows will now open the file without issue.
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