Microsoft is offering “students” up to 30% off Office 2008 for Mac with the purchase of any Mac at Apple resellers now through Sept. 8, 2008.
A full list of participating Apple resellers is available by going to http://www.microsoft.com/mac/promotions/default.mspx and clicking on a “Save Now” link.
In addition, many schools have volume licensing agreements with Microsoft Corp. and are able to provide discounted licenses of Microsoft software for student use.
To learn more about academic pricing and software availability, students should contact their school’s bookstore or visit http://www.microsoft.com/education/howtobuystudents.mspx for special pricing.
Source: Microsoft
MacDailyNews Take: Do you really need Microsoft Office? Give Apple’s free 30-day iWork ’08 trial a try and find out for yourself.
Excel is better than Numbers..<ducks below flying objects>.. with larger files.
I love iWork. It is all that I want to use for anything relating to letters, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.. but Numbers just can’t handle the larger spreadsheets.
I run data for a dozen locations. I created a spreadsheet on Numbers, 15 sheets, 30 days worth of data, add in a few graphs and Numbers slows to a crawl on a new 24″ iMac with 4Gb of RAM.
The same spreadsheet that I originally had in Excel actually held more data than what I put into the Numbers sheet, and it ran like a scalded-dog.
Pages is great.. way better than Word. Keynote is great, and is way better than PowerPoint. But Numbers still has quite a bit of fine-tuning to compete against Excel.. which is what keeps Office on top.
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Been here, done this, many times.
Do I really need Office? Yup. I work in a PC dominated environment. None of the alternatives will cut it.
Was it a good idea to buy Office 08? Nope. As pointed out by Cubert above, it’s slower than Office 04 (under Rosetta), by far. That sucks MS MBU.
Apple is offering iWork and MobileMe free with the purchase of a Mac. You can’t beat that!
Buy iworks instead and get something that actually works.
UK part/full-time students can get an authorised copy of Mac Office 2008 for £37 from Software4students – that’s far cheaper than the direct Microsoft offer.
I actually find Office’s note taking function very useful, I don’t know if iWork offers a better alternative. With tabs that actually helps and voice recording mark for specific section, I think I’ll stick to Office for note taking.
I like both iWorks & Office for Mac
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@ tenderisthemind:
If you use Spaces or Exposé (a feature that has been around for almost 5 years), have multiple Office documents open at once, have iChat open in the background, save relatively simple documents down and open them in Windows versions, ever open the Help feature, then yes, Office 2008 is unusable. This is just a small list of what doesn’t work properly in this poor excuse for software. Microsoft needs to spend less time creating superfluous button animations and more time bug-fixing.
Hey Freddy the Pig:
That is exactly what I have been doing for years. Amazing too when it comes to some friendly competition between staff on who makes the best looking projects. I see some of these people sweat away at stuff and hit them with some real knee breakers.
-You used clip art for that? (or a ghastly look) You mean you don’t make all your graphics from scratch?
-Naw, I finished that part of the project that you are still working on a month ago.
-I was able to open up that file and incorporate it into the final product a long time ago so I don’t need an extension.
I love it that most people are Windows users. It allows me to be more effecient and more competitive with my work. It is like being the only carpenter with a hammer and everyone else is using rocks.
I certainly enjoy the faces of the people too, real Stockholm Syndrome stuff. They see the better product. They see my relaxed attitude. They see me getting the promotions and awards and the salary increases. I even tell me how I do it, and how they could be doing it too.
Ah but they believe the FUD and stick to the windows machines….thank goodness for that.
Like the true whores that they are, MS will sell its services to anyone, including the competition who is beating the crap out of them.
Be careful of buying that version with 30% off cause it only comes with:
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