Reports concerning Microsoft's new Office 2008 suite are beginning to trickle in. MacFixIt reader Bud Clark reports repeated crashes from Word 2008 -- a problem since the installer deletes Office ...

Is Apple’s iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, we asked Jeffrey Battersby—our go-to expert on word processing programs—to use Word 2008 and Pages ’08 to create the ...

We previously reported on incompatibilities between Microsoft Office 2008 and the Spaces virtual desktop features in Mac OS X. While some Spaces-related issues have been addressed in updates ...

It is, of course, unforgivable that Word lacks a built-in Paste Plain Text (or Paste and Match Style) command – even TextEdit has one. What Microsoft expects you to do, in the event that you want ...

My co-hort David mentioned yesterday Microsoft's Mac BU just released the Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update which contains suite-wide stability, security and performance improvements.. I've been ...

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In the support note linked above, Microsoft states that the 12.1.1 Update “fixes an issue that prevents Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (SP1) from opening Word documents when you ...

Separately on Tuesday, Microsoft also issued Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.0 Update [59MB English], which improves compatibility when using documents that were created in Office 2008 for Mac ...

New Special Media Edition provides powerful digital asset management tools. The Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) at Microsoft Corp. today announced at the Apple Expo in Paris its product lineup for ...

Microsoft will release Office 2008 for Mac in January. It plans to charge $399 for the full suite of software, $239 for those who are upgrading.