It includes: - Word - Excel - PowerPoint - Entourage - Microsoft Server Exchange Support - Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft OfficeCheck out the demonstration video with new features in Office 2008 for Mac.

The least expensive option is the 150 Home and Student edition (formerly Student and Teacher), which lacks support for Exchange and Automator.

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After a series of delays, Microsoft plans to release Office for Mac 2008 to brick-and-mortar and online stores on January 15, making this the first update in nearly four years.

Office for Mac includes Word, Excel for spreadsheets, PowerPoint for presentations and Entourage for e-mail and time management.

Theres no Microsoft Access database application for the Mac, although Filemakers upcoming release of Bento offers Mac users a new choice.

Unlike Microsoft Office 2007, the interface changes dont look radically foreign next to the 2004 edition.

Thats good news for anyone who doesnt want to relearn the locations of common functions.

The 2007 applications for Windows arrange functions within tabs, while the 2008 Mac software largely clusters functions within the same drop-down menus including File, Edit, and View.

By and large, most of the changes focus on attempting to help users craft more attractive documents.

For instance, Office for Mac features the same templates and Smart Art graphics as the Windows counterparts.

Now you can save to PDF, and Automator actions are supported.

The new My Day widget for Entourage floats on the Mac desktop displaying calendar items and to-do lists.

This is handy if you rely on Entourage but dont want to run it all the time.

Office 2007 for Windows clusters functions within a contextual Ribbon toolbar that displays different options.

Office for Mac lacks the Ribbon, but some menu items appear only in step with the task at hand.

We found the shape-shifting neither terribly distracting nor useful.

For simple tweaks such as changing fonts, youll need to consult floating formatting boxes.

Being accustomed to Office for Windows, wed rather find all these options at the top of the screen.

Office for Mac saves work in the same, new Open XML formats used by Office 2007 for Windows.

Were not thrilled about this being the default option, even though you can save your work in the older DOC, XLS and PPT formats.

That means for now, should you save work in a new OOXML format in a hurry, someone with the older software wont be able to open it.

That said, the new document types are smaller and purportedly more secure than their predecessors.

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Youll need a Mac with 1.5GB free on the hard drive, running at least OS 10.4.9, with 512MB of RAM and a 500MHz Intel or PowerPC processor.

Installation took about 20 minutes on our MacBook running the Leopard operating system.

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