Review by Amazon Customer

If you are in the corporate world and work extensively with Excel or you have the need to use Entourage with Exchange than I do recommend buying Office 2008. However, if you are person who just does word processing or presentations then IWorks 09 will work for you. IWorks 09 will open Office 2007 documents.

As far as the special edition, I did not really use it because I have been a Macromedia/Adobe user for too long and will continue to use their products.

Yes I do recommend to product; however, I suggest you download the 30 day trial from Microsoft prior to deciding to buy it.