On Office (2008)

Yep, it's official, folks. Office 2008 for Mac was released to manufacturing (RTM) on December 12, 2007, which means it will be in the general population on January 15 (or January 16 in some parts of the world). What's the hubbub about Office 2008? The biggest one is that it's a Universal Binary, meaning that it has code to operate on PowerPC Macs as well as Intel Macs natively. One of the complaints about Office 2004 was that it actually ran slower on the Intel-based Macs than on the PPC-based Macs, but I never encountered that myself.

Microsoft's web site about Office 2008 (http://www.macoffice2008.com/) has more info about the product in general, but it will likely be launch day (coinciding with Macworld, of course) before a lot of details are made known.

Having been in on the beta, I've got some familiarity with the product, but I'll be interested to see what we get on January 15. I'll have more to post as information becomes available.