Thursday, January 17, 2008

Office 2008 for the Mac

Microsoft's MacIntosh Business Unit has recently announced the availability of Office 2008 for Apple Mac Computers. This version of Office will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel based machines. So finally Mac users have their own version of Office.

Office 2008 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage, a more robust E-Mail program. Office for Mac saves work in the same, new Open XML formats used by Office 2007 for Windows.

Office 2007 for Windows includes a new user interface feature called the Ribbon that gives users quick access to specific tools. The Mac version will include a similar feature dubbed the Elements Gallery and Document Parts that can automate some of the most common document tasks, such as adding a table of contents or headers and footers to documents.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"So finally Mac users have their own version of Office."

For you to say this implies this is the first version of Microsoft Office to run natively on the Macintosh, I guess if you don't count all the pervious versions of Office for Mac, that could be true.
I have used Office going back to 1990, Office 1, Natively, on my Mac.

Please don't make blanket statements like this, it is very misleading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_2004_for_Mac#History_of_Office_on_Mac_OS

William Reed

Percy's Technology Training said...

Sorry for the slight inaccuracy. What I meant was "So finally Mac Users have their own version of Office 2007"

Percy K. Parakh