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Microsoft Offers Discounts on Mac Office 08 with any Mac Purchase

Microsoft Offers Discounts on Mac Office 08 with any Mac Purchase

by , 4:00 PM EDT, July 17th, 2008

Microsoft has launched special pricing on all versions of Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac with the purchase of any Macintosh computer. Customers can save up to 30 percent on the Special Media Edition.

The discount on the Home and Student Edition is up to US$15, the discount on the standard Office 2008 for Mac is up to $80, and the discount on the Special Media Edition is up to $150.

For example, clicking through, from the link above, on the standard edition at Amazon takes the user to a special page that requires the user to also select the Mac of their choice. The discount is applied at checkout.


The offer expires on September 8, 2008.

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Close Name:geoduck Posts: 1922 Joined: 30 Dec 2003
Subject: Mmmmmm... No thanks.

I find that OpenOffice does everything I need including sending letters and manuscripts to others in .doc format. So thanks but I'll pass, my Macs are MS free zones.

Of course YMMV

Close Name:Sir Harry Flashman Posts: 792 Joined: 08 Feb 2007
Subject: That is how I got my current version

They had a bundle a number of years ago for Office X when I bought my G4 MDD. My wife got a copy of Office 2004 with her iBook.

I have pretty much stopped using Office and started using iWork.

Close Name:Guest
Subject:

If your using the old version, I find 2008 to be a nice improvement (assuming you don't rely on macros).

Close Name:Sir Harry Flashman Posts: 792 Joined: 08 Feb 2007
Subject: For the money

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Guest wrote:
If your using the old version, I find 2008 to be a nice improvement (assuming you don't rely on macros).


Yes, from what I read about 2008 is a pretty nice improvement over the old version I have, but I don't need it. iWork more than meets my needs and the money to update Office is better put to some other use.

Close Name:Neil Anderson Posts: 16 Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Subject: NeoOffice

NeoOffice seems to work well enough for me on the odd occasion I fire it up. Slow to launch but after that, it's okay.

I use iWork 08 daily. When someone sends me a doc file to edit, I open it in Pages, make my changes and export it back to them as a doc file.

Close Name:MacNano Posts: 8 Joined: 20 Sep 2005
Subject: A White Elephant

Microsoft is trying to get rid of something that nobody wants (a white elephant). Without full macro support this is useless to me as it is to many other users. I will use Office 2004 until Microsoft comes out with the version that includes macro support (2 or 3 years from now?!).

Note: This is my comment but the system did not recognize my login when I wrote it.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Office 2004 would be a better deal

I have Office 2008 on my Intel Mac desktop, and I avoid using it. It does not seem to be noticeably faster than Office 2004 (although as a native application it should be much faster). And many important features, such as VBA and Excel's Solver, are missing. Try to get hold of a copy of Office 2004 until Microsoft manages to come up with an Intel version that works right.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: VBA

Not having VBA in 2008 REALLY hurts and really makes the difference. It's not posturing - I don't have that luxury. The world I work in accepts Macs but only as long as I can play well with others.

Close Name:yoyo52 Posts: 1174 Joined: 02 Feb 2002
Subject:

I had Office 2008 on my G4 laptop and on my G5 tower, and removed it from both. It's a resource hog and, on the PPC chips, at least on mine, slower than molasses on a cold February evening.

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