Omi bhai and Raihan bhai, agree with you both... office 2008:mac used to crush a lot, that is true but with the Office 2008:mac Service Pack 1 it is now better. if you haven't got it, you can give it a try. i would say NOT to install any 3rd party patches in Macs cause it often leads to incompatibility and instability of the office suite. i'm saying this from our experiences at the Apple Store Hannover, Germany. we also saw that Office 2008:mac works better if you have more than 1GB RAM. we tested with 1GB, 2GB and 4GB. of course performance and stability is best with 4GB but also it's rather good with 2GB. what are your comments to that? it is very interesting to know this because we can then send feedbacks to our technicians and engineers at Apple!
we got a lot of positive responses from customers who are using both office 2007 and 2008:mac and they all agreed that the best Microsoft Office is on the Mac (Boot Camp is getting very popular these days: you can install win xp or vista on a mac these days!). anyway, moving on. i don't see how Pages '08 has less features! in my opinion it has more!! just explore a bit more... comparing Office 2007 and 2008:mac, i'd say there isn't much addition of features. but this is also same for other versions like Office XP and Office 2003 is not that different... 2008:mac has been adapted with the tabs and you then have the cool Apple style inspectors that help you to fetch stuff quick and easy! last, i just want to give a small tip for Keynote '08: like exporting to Flash, a Keynote Presentation can also be exported as Quicktime movie. and the best part of this is: you can export your presentation as it is. it will have all the compatibility, including the cool transitions and animation effects etc. and more cool is that you can view this presentation on a Windows PC if you have Quicktime installed!! and as all Apple stuff are integrated with each other, Quicktime knows it's a presentation and thus acts accordingly!! so at last you can have your cool mac presentations running on Win... guess i've been writing too much. that's all for now. till the next time then. and it was nice to talk to you guys. BdLug is cool... cheers sami [image: http://kapani.de/sami/apple-sig.jpg] On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Raihan Hasnain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out this screenshot, taken from my desktop > http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7384/picture1ig0.png > > Tell me one feature that is new in Office 2008 (from 2007) and useful > [except the save as PDF, as it is the native feature of OS X]. Office > 2008 is a mac port of Office 2007 which is slower and crashes often > even with all patches installed. Office 2008 doesn't use Rosseta on > Intel anymore but I have no idea why it is this much slow. I guess MS > uses their own libraries instead of OS X's native ones for their own > convenience of course. Again, Office 2008 has fewer options and > features just because of MS strategy (lets not discuss and start a > flamewar against MS). > > I still may be wrong. As I usually talk from my own experience. > > You are right Sami, iWork'08 is an awesome piece of work. Again > comparing to Office 2007/2008, "Pages" might have less features, but > "Keynote" is super awesome. Moreover Keynote files can be saved as > Flash files :D I am not a fan of Numbers (or Excel either), so can not > compare any spreadsheets. iWork is fast, the files are smaller in > size, the templates are good and really useful, and moreover it has > everything we need all the time. > > I am beta testing OOo [for mac] for a while, it's alright but I > couldn't like it much. It is compatible with MS formats better than > before. Check this out > http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html > By the way, OOo beta is more stable than Office 2008:mac ;) > > I hope OOo 3 will be a nice step for all platforms. I may move into > OpenSolaris soon, then there is NO alternative of OOo :p > > @Omi bhai > I agree with you Omi bhai. I used OOo for preparing everything when I > was in year 2 and 3 in university. It is good enough for most of the > users. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
