Review by greenmantis

I’m a long time Windows user who just bought my first Mac computer this year. I installed Office 2008 on my Mac Mini and have been using it for a couple of months. I’m using MS Office ‘07 for Win on my work laptop. After I started using Office ‘08 for Mac, I felt very familiar with the interface. However, in the past, it did take me a week to get used to the jump from Office XP to Office ‘07 for Win. Unfortunately, like ‘07 for win, ‘08 for Mac feels bloated and crashes quite often. Granted my Mac isn’t the fastest (Intel Duo Core 2, 4GB RAM, OSX 10.5), but Word shouldn’t crash just because I have start opening and closing Office programs quickly. I guess the upside is that the files are completely compatible between ‘07 for Win and ‘08 for Mac. But I heard iWork can save as or convert to Office files also, which I might test out soon. If you are using this for business application like me and want little adaption time and full compatibility, then get this. If not, then iWork might be a better alternative.