As a teacher, I purchased the student / teacher edition, and I have been wildly impressed with Office 2004. For one thing, it cost only $150 and allows me to legally and easily install the software on THREE computers in mt home. (My wife and I are both using the software on separate Macs.)

My uses are primarily Entourage and Excel, and both fit the bill well me. I have not had the Entourage issue (failing to start) other have experienced, but I did have to re-author my rules, which stopped working properly after the upgrade. Nevertheless, the new junk mail filter is both accurate and very convenient, and the colorized display for segregating eMail by date, author, and other criteria is awesome, making finding old email MUCH easier.

And Excel, in all its variants, it is still software that qualifies are miraculous in my book. I don't know of software on any platform, by any other vendor that is as complete and useable as Excel.

The MacBU did well, and I thank them for the product and Microsoft for making it affordable (at least for teachers and students).