Previous versions, including Office 2004, ran natively only on older PowerPC-based Macs, and had to utilize Apple's Rosetta emulation technology to run (a bit more slowly) on Intel Macs.

That is, Office 2008 is the first version of Mac Office that runs natively on Intel-based Macs. As Apple CEO Steve Jobs not-so-subtly noted during his recent MacWorld 2008 keynote address, Mac Office is literally the last major Macintosh application that's been released in the so-called Universal format. The question, of course, is what the newest version, Office 2008, brings to the party. But Mac Office is also one of those very necessary products, something that virtually all Mac users need. I've used several versions of Mac Office over the years, and while some others have incorrectly called this suite the best version of Office on any platform, I've always found it to be a bizarre and nonstandard set of applications, one that manages to be as decidedly un-Mac-like as it is un-Windows-like.

I'm speaking of course about Word 2008 for the Mac, part of Office 2008 for the Mac, the latest version of Microsoft's office productivity suite for that other OS platform you may have heard of. I'm typing this overview in an application that should be immediately familiar but is instead curiously and frustratingly unfamiliar.

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