MacBU promises Office 2008 fix

Is there some safe way of removing Office Mac 2008 programs from my hard drive? I want to stick with '04, which works fine for me. Unfortunately, every time I want to launch a document from the Finder or Mail, it automatically goes to the '08 applications, which I want to avoid, since simple things like resizing a pane in Excel results in a crash. I'm nervous about just dumping the Office 2008 folder in the trash, despite the satisfaction that would give me.

concurr with moonman, I also had hoped running native excel would
have picked up speed, at least back to 2004 running on PowerPC. Well
what a mistake that was, 4 times slower? More like 8 times slower, it
can take two minutes just to cut and paste data.

Some of my multi v-lookup sheets are taking twenty seconds to think
after typing 10 characters, it's a total joke, dont buy it.

A pity Numbers doesn't support v-lookup with an isna 0 supplement to
return 0 rather than N/A for empty data cells.

I concurr with moonman, I also had hoped running native excel would have picked up speed, at least back to 2004 running on PowerPC. Well what a mistake that was, 4 times slower? More like 8 times slower, it can take two minutes just to cut and paste data.

Some of my multi v-lookup sheets are taking twenty seconds to think after typing 10 characters, it's a total joke, dont buy it.

A pity Numbers doesn't support v-lookup with an isna 0 supplement to return 0 rather than N/A for empty data cells.

if it was only for the few file permissions I'd be extremely glad. But this is the second most crappy software I ever installed on any machine in 15 years. I have NO kind words for the Mac BU. The best advise I'd have for their management is: Get yourself new jobs in a gas station.

The performance issue appears to every tester in less than 30 minutes. You open the thing and you gaze at the splash screen for more than a minute. Yot swith to the view of all slides - and powerpoint crashes right away. Even Office 2007 using Parallel running Vista is faster. I didn't believe what I saw.

I guess I'll do my next presentations in Keynote - finally the've got me there. But this is really the worst piece of software I've seen in a decade. Maybe not in terms of UI - only - you don't get there because the thing crashes before you come to some menu items.

Does Steve Ballmer know? Or did he even order this shit to happen in order to sell a few Vista licenses?

As you might have noticed from this posting - I'm really bloody upset.

If they didn't make such crappy software then perhaps they'd catch a break.
Too bad a year and a half after the move to intel they just got around to an intel build.
Way to fail Microsoft.

Apple seems to be doing the same thing as *standard practice* on 10.4 and 10.5 when installing apps from a user account:

http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/25/tiger.leopard.flaw/

probably :)

I always used the office for Mac products since Excel 1.0 in '85. With office 2004 they had a great product but it took a few updates to getting it humming. (I can say the same for OS X 10.4 & 10.5 too) I am sure the Mac BU with a unstaffed/underloved staff will make right before you know it. (I think office 2007 is waste of effort but maybe I don't get it) I still use '04 and will until things settleout. Office for Mac will be great but the MS is hugh and things move slower there then most would like.

Office '08 is SLOW. It's slower than Office 2004 on Rosetta ever was for my machine, and it CRASHES. I was trying to create a scatter plot of 5000 data points (high frequency sensor inputs), and Excel barfed on me. This would never happen with Excel on Windows, nor Office '04 on Mac.

While I applaud MS for keeping us updated with new Office releases, please PLEASE make them NOT SUCK.

Come on, be honest... Office in general is a piece of shit.
Wherever I create documents I use iWork, it's just how office work has to be... in fact iWork is the reason why I decided to switch to Mac. And I'm sorry TUAW... what did you write about being kind to the MS Mac Team?
After more then years of development it's not possible to add one simple picture to word without totally destroying my 160-page document. S, how should I even take them serious?