Oh how I laughed.

jdickerson said:
How would Office 2007 cope?

That's all I want it for.
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If you're just running office on OSX (without Office 2008), have a look at Crossover - quite abit of stability for running Office "natively", without the need for Windows OS installed, saves space~ :)

Otherwise, just stick with Office 2008, got the Student Edition and it's much much better since 2004's, still takes a good few second on the splash screen but it works speedily when ready.
 
Dr Jones said:
Otherwise, just stick with Office 2008, got the Student Edition and it's much much better since 2004's, still takes a good few second on the splash screen but it works speedily when ready.
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It's not like the splash screen of 2008 burns your eyes, either. :p
 
WotDa said:
It's not like the splash screen of 2008 burns your eyes, either. :p
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No no... it doesn't - what I mean is it takes abit longer then e.g. how fast my home PC launches Office; still got to wait abit for it to load on OSX but much much faster than 2004's beachball bouncing...
 
i really dont think either os x or xp really has the edge over the other one in terms of stability... i had some real os x problems a while back related to a bad cs3 trial install that was playing up and also quicksilver causing some problems, these meant hard restarts quite regularly, afer a fresh install of os x and also the retail cs3, its all good again :)

same can be said about xp, as long as you aint got a driver playing up or some bad software its solid...
 
electric ant said:
But why not just get Office Mac 2008?
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As it's ****.


Dr Jones said:
If you're just running office on OSX (without Office 2008), have a look at Crossover - quite abit of stability for running Office "natively", without the need for Windows OS installed, saves space~ :)

Otherwise, just stick with Office 2008, got the Student Edition and it's much much better since 2004's, still takes a good few second on the splash screen but it works speedily when ready.
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I didn't know crossover existed :D
 
EVH said:
Office 2008 Mac > Office 2007
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I quite agree - my little brother works on his system with 2007, it feels very different compared to how the old layout it - I like how they've made it all tab and everything but it's just over the top - the old ways worked and the new change made it too complicated imo.

I don't understand why jdickson thinks it's poo...
 
The UI in 2008 doesn't feel as cluttered as the 2007 one.

I personally hate the new ribbon/tab layout on Windows, but it's not as bad on OS X :)
 
I quite like the tab layout myself - instead of being hidden in various menus and dialogue boxes, it's fairly easy to find something based on the tab name it'd fall under. My housemate recently got Office 2008 for Mac and it feels far more cluttered to me, personally. It's mixed the tabs, with the usual File, Edit View etc menu bar, and then you've got that weird floating window which has even more options in it. Office 2007 at least does well to centralise everything.
 
TheVoice said:
I quite like the tab layout myself - instead of being hidden in various menus and dialogue boxes, it's fairly easy to find something based on the tab name it'd fall under. My housemate recently got Office 2008 for Mac and it feels far more cluttered to me, personally. It's mixed the tabs, with the usual File, Edit View etc menu bar, and then you've got that weird floating window which has even more options in it. Office 2007 at least does well to centralise everything.
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I agree with this 100%.
 
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