Mac Office 2008 goes gold- January 15 release

We love our Macs on jkOnTheRun and the one program update I have been waiting for is Office 2008.  Neowin is reporting that the major update will be available on January 15th of next year and that the suite has gone gold for manufacturing.  Office 2008 will bring the ribbon interface to the Mac side and more importantly will run natively on the Intel platform for better performance.  The current (old) version of Office for the Mac runs in emulator mode which has to be slower than this new native version.  I can't wait.

Comments

[Anthony]

Finally, just in time for the spring classes to start. I'm sick and tired of having to export pages documents to word so my teachers can read it.

[CSL]

Will Onenote be in it? Even if it doesn't, I still love Mac office.

[MacIt]

My hope is that we (Mac users) will finally be able to import images into our PowerPoints, Word docs, etc and share these documents with our PC comrades and not have the image come up as Tiff on the other end. This is so important because a lot of time Mac users create a fabulous presentation in PP using Office Mac but let's say... for whatever reason... you have to showcase it using a PC. You're standing in front of hundreds of onlookers, geared up and ready for a presentation you spent weeks on and GASP!!!! the PC can't read the Tiff images. (BTW, saving them as JPEGS doesn't matter either). I've even gone in a changed the script to save all snippets and images as JPEGS.)

I really want my employees to be able to choose their OS because I think, one it's evolution and two, it helps with productivity, but sharing Office docs with the current Mac Office is a problem that stifles a multi OS way of doing business.

PLEASE FIX THIS APPLE!!!!!!