Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac

Microsoft office 2008 for Mac is the most recent version of the Microsoft Office productivity for suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac and is the Macintosh equivalent of office 2007, the latest version for Windows. It was developed by Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008.

Office 2008 for Mac was originally slated for release in the second half of 2007; however it was delayed until January 2008, citing the need to fix lingering bugs. Office 2008 is the first version of Office for Mac supplied as a Universal Binary.

Unlike Office 2007 for Windows, Office 2008 was not offered as a public beta before its scheduled release date.

Features

Office 2008 for Mac includes the same core programs currently included with Office 2004 for Mac: Entourage, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

Mac-only features included are a publishing layout view, which offers functionality similar to Microsoft Publisher for Windows, a "Ledger Sheet mode" in Excel to ease financial tasks, and a "My Day" application offering a quick way to view the day's events.

Office 2008 supports the new Office Open XML format, and defaults to saving all files in this format. On February 21, 2008 Geoff Price revealed that the format conversion update for Office 2004 would be delayed until June 2008 in order to provide the first update to Office 2008.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications is not supported in this version. As a result such Excel add-ins as solver, which are dependent on VBA, were not bundled in this latest release. Excel in Office 2008 for the Mac also still lacks Pivot Chart functionality, which has long been a feature in the Windows version. Microsoft has announced that VBA will be making a return in the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac. AppleScript and the Open Scripting Architecture is, however, supported.

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