Microsoft Office 2008 on the Mac

Now it is impossible to say that Microsoft Office is the greatest, must have, software package for any mac or pc for office work.

I was quite excited when the new Intel version of Microsoft Office was released that I purchased it very shortly after it was released. In some ways I am very pleased with this new mac version of Microsoft Office but in other ways VERY upset at Microsoft.

Let me begin by saying no other application on my system locks up or crashes more then once every three months and that is only with the same applications. Microsoft Office (especially Excel) crashes on a regular basis. I send the error reports but I believe they go in a spam folder at Microsoft. How much time are they spending on fixing any issues? I don't think any time since I haven't seen any significant updates.

So be warned that on a mac that your Excel will crash so often that it is deemed unreliable and I can not rely on it for anything but looking at an excel spreadsheet. I am forced to use Excel in my VMWare Fusion Windows XP session.