"It was clear from our June and July quality checkpoints that no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't release our product in time for the Christmas season with the kind of quality we wanted," Eisler said on Aug. Last month, Microsoft was forced to push the release of Office 2008 into next year after Craig Eisler, the Mac group's general manager, said the software was plagued with quality issues. The addition of Expression bumps the price to $499.95, or $299.95 for those who are upgrading from a previous version of Office. It is worth noting, for our international readers, that Office 2008 for Mac will be available in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, and, new in this version Danish, Finnish and Norwegian.New to the line is Special Media Edition, which bundles Expression Media for Mac - a digital content manager that organizes photos and video and audio files - with the four core applications. It includes everything in the core suite (including Exchange support) as well as a full version of Microsoft Expression Media for Mac for $499.95 or $299.95 for the upgrade. Microsoft Office for Mac Special Media Edition: This one is interesting.This edition only comes in the full retail flavor for $149.95 (which isn't a bad price at all, though this one is a no go for me). As such the version of Entourage included in Home and Student Edition does not support Exchange, nor do you get Automator workflows with this edition. Microsoft Office for the Mac Home and Student Edition: This is aimed at the segment of the market that needs to edit documents and such, but isn't in an Exchange environment.You can pick this version up for $399.95 (US) for the full retail version and $239.95 for an upgrade. This version includes some Automator workflows, as well as Exchange support in Entourage (you'll see why I mention this in a moment). Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac: This is the core version of the productivity suite which includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage.
There will be three different flavors of Office 2008 for the Mac, and they are as follows: The latest news from our friends at Redmond concerns editions and price (Oh! Pricing!).
I'm becoming the Microsoft Office Maven here at TUAW it would seem (which isn't as cool as being TUAW's iPhone hacker, Erica, but I'll take what I can get).
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