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Office 2008 for Mac - anyone seen the beta yet?
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According to Mac Mojo, it still isn't ready.
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Ignore the argumentative nature of this poster. He is old and can't engage in meaningful dialog
very long. Therefore, management asks that you at least humor him. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by Shades of Gray 
According to Mac Mojo, it still isn't ready.
Well to MS's defense, they did say second half of the year.
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I'm really looking forward to the Intel-native Office 2008 Mac. My main machines are Intel Macs, and I just installed Office 2004 on a G5 iMac. It feels sooooo much faster on the G5 (even though it isn't even exactly super fast on the G5 either).
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I wonder if office sales are going to be hurt by parallels/boot camp.
I own office 2007 and I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to spend extra $$ to run office under osx.
I'm sure I'm going to get flamed but I only have a finite amount of money and I needed office 2007 (well pc version of office) for my job so it's tough to justify buying mac office when I already have it running within parallels (which is usually running on my machine. If I'm thinking of doing this, then I wonder how many other users are thinking the same thing.
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Michael
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It is an interesting argument. Perhaps increased Mac sales in recent years will offset the number of people who go to Win office.
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Sales are far more likely to be hurt by its increasing crippleware status (no VBA support = even worse compatibility with Windows Office than there is now).
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I'll be sticking with Parallels until a solid VISIO contender is out for MAC. I run Office 2007 on parallels and Office Mac on O/S - flipping back and forth depending on whether I am in a right or left brain side mood.
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Originally Posted by JKT
Sales are far more likely to be hurt by its increasing crippleware status (no VBA support = even worse compatibility with Windows Office than there is now).
Definitely, I forgot about that little issue. I have some pretty involved VBA macros, not being able to run them is a show stopper.
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Michael
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Personally, I'm fairly excited about the upcoming Carbon-based OpenOffice, which promises to be much significantly faster than NeoOffice. It's also due to be in late alpha/early beta around the same time that Office 2008 comes out.
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