Microsoft knocks a few bucks off of Office for the holidays

Seth Weintraub
|
November 17, 2009
|
Share

Microsoft is getting in the Holiday spirit by offering $20 off of the retail prices of Home and Student, $40 off of Business Upgrade and $50 off Business Edition of Office 2008 for Mac.  The new prices are still more than Amazon charges but it is the thought that counts, right?

Comments (5)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 17, 2009 - 10:09pm

There are a lot of great alternatives for less money:

  • iWork
  • OpenOffice
  • NeoOffice

The least reliable product I've used on my Mac is Office 2008.  Unless you absolutely require Office 2008 for a particular reason, I'd save your money.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 18, 2009 - 9:31am

iWork has matured into a pretty nice product, and handles 99% of my needs, and I don't know what the 1% is that I'm missing.  For MSRP $169 you can buy the latest addition, and get Snow Leopard, and get the update to iLife.  I'm on the '08 versions of the software and they have been pretty much rock sold for me.  I'm going to upgrade to whatever the next version is, probably in January.

Ralph Pollock (not verified) | November 18, 2009 - 8:52am

A better move would be for Microsoft to turn these programs into something useful that's not overpriced. While it is true that MS Office can do lots of things, most users don't know or even care - they could make a set of programs that do what most people do with them - which is about 10% of what they can do. These people will NEVER use MS Office in the way that was intended or programmed; why not make a set of programs that fill this need for a lot less money?

Jamie (not verified) | November 18, 2009 - 2:09pm

Office 2008 for Mac is the worst collection of software I have ever used. The incompatibilities with it's Windows' counterpart are extraordinary. Thank God, the MacBU is euthanizing Entourage. And Excel 2008 is by far the worst spreadsheet program on the market (Numbers and NeoOffice open xlsx files better than Microsoft's own program). As a Mac user, I had two choices in order to work on documents from home and the road and maintain the documents' integrity with my office. I could either buy a PC (which wasn't going to happen) or install VMware Fusion and buy Windows and Office 2007. I, unfortunatley did the latter. I will be skipping the next version of Office for Mac unless it washes my dishes, does my laundry and pays my bills. Office 2008 stinks!

9to5Mac boon (not verified) | November 18, 2009 - 11:21pm

iWork is better, much better.