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Microsoft Office 2008

Microsoft Office 2008 - 12.1.9

Entourage, PowerPoint, Excel, Word suite.

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Current Version: 12.1.9
Release Date: 2009-06-09
License: Update
Downloads (this version): 7,269
Downloads (all versions): 101,831

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Product Description:

With beautiful docs, spreadsheets, and multimedia presentations, you can quickly create, manage, and re-use content across any platform. Manage calendars, communications and projects with a completely easy-to-use 2008 UI and new tools that help you make time behave.

What's new in this version:

This update improves security. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. In addition, this update readies Office 2008 for Mac for the installation of Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition, and must be installed before Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition is installed.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Office '08

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Microsoft Office 2008 ReviewReview after updating - Version: 12.1.9, 6/10/2009 01:38PM PST

(5 of 5 users found this comment useful)

epc
It's interesting to see all the anti-Microsoft comments from Mac users, but my experience with Microsoft has been positive. BTW, for the past 10 years I've used Macs 99% of the time.

One reviewer suggests to "check out Apple's iWork package, which has 99.9% of the features at HALF the price." This is not accurate. I've used iWork since it came out, and Keynote before it was bundled with Pages as iWork. Prior to that I also used AppleWorks.
For me, the long-term cost of iWork has been more expensive that Office given that iWork has no upgrade path. The only iWork application that I prefer when compared to a Microsoft Office application is Keynote. I prefer Word instead of Pages, and Excel is vastly superior to Numbers.
For very basic work Pages and Numbers are sufficient, but for my needs I prefer the aforementioned Microsoft products.

Thanks to Microsoft's promotions and discounts, Office has been quite affordable. Some people got Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition for around $30 (thirty) dollars. Pretty good deal. I got my copy of the Special Media Edition for the price of the Student Version.
iWork is indeed cheaper, but for many power users it is not sufficient and as mentioned there's no upgrade path so after a couple of years the expense adds up.

One big downside is the lack of VBA in Office 2008. They acknowledged this issue many months before the software was released. That's why I kept a 2004 version. I've read that VBA will be incorporated again in the future, hopefully as a free update.

Regarding problems with Entourage, I use it to check 5 email accounts. I have not had any problems after the upgrade. Launch time is about 10 seconds on a Dual 2GHz PPC G5, OS X 10.5.7, with 160active fonts.

Although I still prefer Entourage, I admit that Apple's Mail has gotten better with each release.

I've said this before but it may be worth repeating. I did have problems with Office originally, until I did a complete clean installation of Leopard. Many of the problems I was experiencing were due to Leopard. The problems were not limited to Office, but to many other applications as well. I finally began using Leopard regularly after 10.5.3 or 10.5.4. Initial releases were extremely buggy.
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Microsoft Office 2008 Troubleshooting ReportLatest updates still do not function. - Version: 12.1.9, 6/10/2009 11:37AM PST

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shavital2
1. Downloaded XML update as a stand alone file. It still installed version 1.0.2, when it was supposed to update to version 1.0.3.
2. Tried the 12.1.9 again, via automatic update. Same results, update cannot be installed because the required software version cannot be found on this volume.
3. Went to MacUtopia, tried to download a stand alone 12.1.9 updater. The link leads to something called Microsoft Office2008-1210UpdateEN, that is supposed to be required to install 12.1.9. Downloaded that package (Office2008-1210UpdateEN), ran it, ended up with the same story: software version not found on this volume.

This is becoming not only annoying, but worrying: the 12.1.9 update is shown as "critical".

I am not going to use any component of Office 2008, until Microsoft comes up with a satisfactory and logical explanation.

Sorry to repeat myself: thanks be given to Open Software for Open Office and NeoOffice.

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Microsoft Office 2008 Troubleshooting ReportMicrosoft Office 2008 update 12.1.9 does not install - Version: 12.1.9, 6/10/2009 05:29AM PST

shavital2
The Automatic Updater found the available updates and downloaded them. The update installation failed because "the required software version was not found". I have e-mailed Microsoft Support a complete report (I had still two free support e-mail requests, because I had never used any till now),
There is something untoward: the current version (in my system) is 12.1.7, whereas the available update is 12.1.9. Sounds like there should be 12.1.8 somewhere?
Microsoft...
I am not overly worried. Version 12.1.7 is running satisfactorily (somehow) and I have always Open Office and NeoOffice (always updated without problems) to use instead.
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