why should anybody use a software written in a language non-compatible with Cocoa, bloated with garbage, with 80% unnecessary for Apple OS ???
Why even to bother to have it on a Mac, and contradict to concept of Apple and Macintosh ?
Those who moved to Mac from windowz, why do you still stick with the garbage written for windowz ?
Do you forget that every piece of windowz software is written with one goal in mind - to make your computer run slow, to infest with crap to attract viruses,...?
80% of MS Office is not used by 80% of windowz users.
That's why Pages is designed with usability in mind, it's elegant and light.
The same with KeyNote and Numbers.
Even Bean is more usable than MS Word.
80% of most people need to do, can be done in iWork.

I run 2008 and it still appears under appfresh/iusethis as '2004'. In any case, it's necessary if you work in a windows-based environment. 08 is a much better version than 04, but still leaves a lot to be desired. A necessary evil, so to speak.

boo on office, its too slow

guys, guys... that was [sort of] a joke.

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destroy!

If you're using your Mac to interface with the business world you can pretty much forget using anything else; Mac Office 2004 isn't a great app but it's necessary. While I'm all for supporting the ongoing developmentg of open source alternatives, until they can handle tracked changes between dozens of different users over hundreds of pages I'll be using Office.

It runs well on both my PowerBook G4 1.5GHz and my iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz via Rosetta. It looks goofy, however - the interface isn't Mac and it isn't Microsoft. It looks like Microsoft attempting to appear Mac (go figure!).

I use Word when I have to, although I prefer not to write in it. Sometimes I also use it to comment papers for my son. I use Excel to keep track of grades in my smaller classes. (In big classes I prefer a database like FileMaker.) My wife uses Entourage for email and some memos. Got a big scare with her database last week, but found enough user advice online to bring it back to life. See especially http://www.entourage.mvps.org/.

Having used MS Word since word 3 on PC my biggest concern is the "lifespan" of any documents created with word. Every new version comes with a new file format.

I use Word and Excel daily at work. It's a love/hate thing. I love that I can use my Mac at work. I hate that I have to use Microsoft Office but the alternatives (NeoOffice) just didn't cut it for me.

Claimed all of my fonts were corrupted, not worth the hassle. Switched to NeoOffice - faster and suits all of my needs.