Office 2008 for Mac to come this year

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Until they add Access to it, I won't simply won't buy it. Its bs to buy it with all that crap, and not have Access, let alone Publisher. They may have Adobe products better than Publisher, but the fact is they don't support Publisher, and for a small-business employee like myself, I utilize Publisher and Access everyday, along with Word and Excel. I Entourage doesn't even help me.

But then again, for a small business I guess I can stick to Windows, since they are cheaper. Doesn't matter if they work less efficent. If they aren't going to make things to suit my needs, I have to go with what works, excellent or not.

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Until they add Access to it, I won't simply won't buy it. Its bs to buy it with all that crap, and not have Access, let alone Publisher. They may have Adobe products better than Publisher, but the fact is they don't support Publisher, and for a small-business employee like myself, I utilize Publisher and Access everyday, along with Word and Excel. I Entourage doesn't even help me.

There's no market for those applications on Mac OS X. All Mac users use applications like Quark, FileMaker Pro, Adobe InDesign or even Pages (Pages makes an amazing Publisher counterpart IMO). Only few will actually use Access or Publisher so they decided not to develop it for the Mac platform.

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InDesign is way better than Publisher anyways. I like the interface. It is ribbon-ish but fits in with Aqua. I wonder if you'll be able to minimize the document parts area when you don't need it.

I would assume so, yes. Microsoft got a lot of complaints from Office 2007 beta testers because it wasn't possible to "minimize" the Ribbon. Doubt they'll make the same mistake with Office 2008 for Mac.

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I would assume so, yes. Microsoft got a lot of complaints from Office 2007 beta testers because it wasn't possible to "minimize" the Ribbon. Doubt they'll make the same mistake with Office 2008 for Mac.

you can minimize ribbon now, so i hope you can for 2008

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