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I've been running Office on my new iMac at home for a while and it has been great – I love the performance and the new interface. Last night I decided to give some of my older machines a shot – I have a 1.43GHz PowerPC based Mac Mini and my very first Mac, my Power Mac G4, with dual 500MHz PowerPC processors. I paved my Mac Mini and installed Leopard, and left the Power Mac running Tiger. I installed Office 2008 on both and I was very pleased with the performance – especially on my Power Mac, which at 500MHz is the minimum processor required for Office. Works great on the newer Intel Macs, works great on older PowerPC based Macs!
The reviews of Office: mac 2008 have started to appear the past couple of days, and I think it is fair to say that folks generally like what they see. The below isn't a complete list, but it is a decent sample. January 15th here we come!
January 3rd:
- Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal: New Office for Macs Speeds Up Programs, Integrates Formats
- Stephen H. Wildstrom, Business Week: Microsoft and Mac, Happy Together
January 2nd:
- Macworld.com has a very detailed overview:
- Jim Dalrymple: With release looming, Microsoft previews Office 2008
- Tom Negrino: First Look: Entourage 2008
- Rob Griffiths: First Look: Excel 2008
- Franklin N. Tessler: First Look: PowerPoint 2008
- Jeffery Battersby: First Look: Word 2008
- Michael J. Miller, PCMag.com: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
- Wilson Rothman, Gizmodo.com: First Hands On: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008
Comments
Craig, will you be on stage during the Stevenote to demo Office 2008?
Posted by: Michael Dragone | January 3, 2008 7:15 PM
Every detail of the Stevenote is kept very secret, so I can't talk about the Stevenote (and your guess is as good as mine as to what Steve will talk about - I'm rooting for a sub-notebook myself).
MacBU will have an huge presence at Macworld, and there will be plenty of opportunities to check out Office 2008 first hand.
Posted by: Craig | January 5, 2008 10:35 AM