Pricing, ship date announced for MS Office For Mac 2011

It seems to me that Microsoft has a real problem in that there's little that needed to be added to Office, leaving little incentive to upgrade at any price.

With iWork available I find very little need for MS Office - even for professional work - with the exception of working with Excel. While Numbers does a passable job of basic number crunching, it still can't match Excel for graphing.

For this, though, Office 2004 is more than passable. I find it hard to believe that there's anything so new in the current version that I'd feel compelled to buy it. Mine may or may not be a typical use case, but I'll bet I'm not the only person for whom any new "extras" or enhancements aren't all that enticing.

While I'll use iWork for home stuff, when I'm working I need MS Office purely for compatibility so this is a sale for me. I've been waiting for Office 2011 to provide a compelling upgrade since I'm still running Office 2004 under Rosetta on a new iMac.

Does it support right to left languages?

unfortunately i still receive many files that cant' be opened with anything but office correctly. And at tiems, especially when dealing with certain languages such as arabic, we had to resort to the windows version.

I don't mind them as much.. word is ok at what it does (just don't add images or complex formatting!) whilst excel is still very good compared to the competition

i've tried switching to numbers hoping for a speed boost on a certain excel file but it didn't give me much. my main complaint bout the office apps on the mac is that they take too long to load, they grind the computers to a halt

oh and the installer required rosetta!

PASS!!

I have no problems with 2008 version and I hate the ribbon in the PC up to date versions of Word, Excel. The ribbon is AWFUL so its not worthy of an update.

THey should only update office every 10 years, how much can they really add to Word, Excel?

Man why is it so expensive? apple's iwork is only $80 and its a single version not a lot of useless versions, and plus theres no well loved-activation key so it can be installed as many times as you please. Man i am so glad i do not have to put up with this company since i dont own a pc, allways MS ripping off people........

Too expensive

I assume the Home and Student edition is like the Windows version in that you can install it on up to three computers.

I also assume you cannot use the Mac Home and Student edition for commercial use. You are forced to use the more expensive the Home and Business edition.

MS Office is expensive. I will stick with OpenOffice or NeoOffice.

I find it pretty crummy that they don't include Outlook in the home and student version.

Pass. Google Apps does all that for free.