The MBU has been hard at work on the first new Office for Mac release in four years, and one that's been designed to take on Apple's iWork apps. All that has changed, however, with the release of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008. The applications were not universal binaries, which meant they had to run in under emulation in Rosetta. Office 2004 wasn't bad per se, but the switch to Intel has been painful for Office users. Bugs were ironed out for Office 2004, and that's where we've been ever since. Office 2001 introduced some new features, and then Office v.X brought the productivity suite to the shiny happy land of OS X. Office 98 was a fine package, and Internet Explorer 5 gave the Mac a better browser at the time than was available for Windows. Regardless of where you stand on the Office versus iWork question, there's no denying that Redmond has has churned out some pretty impressive and very Mac-like software.
For many others though, especially those of us who live and work in cross-platform environments, the reality is that Microsoft's Office suite is the de facto standard, and life is a lot easier if everyone's files play nice. There is a contingent of Mac users for whom Microsoft is the enemy, and any alternative to their products is the right choice.
The subject of Microsoft Office for Mac has the potential to be a touchy one with Apple fans.
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