What is 2008?

[Scott Jasper]

What is Office 2008? Is it similar to Microsoft office 2007?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

What is Office 2008? Is it similar to Microsoft office 2007?

Office 2008 is the designation for the next version of Mac Office. There
hasn't been much announced about it yet.

It will be similar to WinOffice2007 in most respects, though it will
also be substantially different in others.

New file formats, which changed in Office2007, will be implemented in
Office2008. Office2008 will also implement many of the additional
features in Office 2007 (for instance, the increased number of rows and
columns in Excel).

The User Interface will be substantially different, though based on the
brief preview at MacWorld, there will be a different implementation of
Office2007's attempt to make working with documents more intuitive with
the ribbon.

VBA will NOT be implemented in Office2008. Instead, scripting will be
available via AppleScript.

There will be Mac-only features, too, such as the MyDay widget.

 

[CyberTaz]

At this point in time, Office 2008 is nothing more than a marketing term for
the next release of MS Office for Mac. Anything beyond that is constrained
to development within MS. We did see a "sneak preview" at MacWorld which
suggested that there may be some similarities as well as some difference,
but any number of changes are likely to occur before the current concepts
evolve into a product released to market.

Continue to check the Mactopia site for info. MS is the only reliable source
of information about *their* plans & products, and when there is something
to tell us I doubt they will hide it in any way ;-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac