All year long that word was everywhere. It was something we could believe in. It was something that mattered. But by the end of 2008 it was not, most definitely, richly jingling in our pockets. The ...

Reports concerning Microsoft's new Office 2008 suite are beginning to trickle in. MacFixIt reader Bud Clark reports repeated crashes from Word 2008 -- a problem since the installer deletes Office 2004 ...

Nobody likes losing a document, especially if they've invested a great deal of time and effort in its creation. If your company has a Mac computer running Microsoft Word 2008, the software has an ...

After a few weeks of working with Word 2008, it’s apparent that there is a major convergence between how Apple and Microsoft think a word processing application should work. While Word hasn’t changed ...

My co-hort David mentioned yesterday Microsoft's Mac BU just released the Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update which contains suite-wide stability, security and performance improvements. I've been having ...

Crashes on application launch -- more fixes Users continue to experience an issue where Office 2008 applications crash as soon as they are launched. One of the latest reports: "On a customers Mac, a ...

The subject of Microsoft Office for Mac has the potential to be a touchy one with Apple fans. There is a contingent of Mac users for whom Microsoft is the enemy, and any alternative to their products ...

Is Apple’s iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, we asked Jeffrey Battersby—our go-to expert on word processing programs—to use Word 2008 and Pages ’08 to create the same ...

Today, Microsoft released the Office 2008 Service Pack 2 update. This update brings many improvements and fixes to Office 2008, including improved speed and stability to Word and Excel, new features ...

Brand new MacBook Pro with Word 2008. Everything's updated to current. When I try to save a document as a PDF, it spits out an error:<BR><BR>Word could not communicate with the printer.<BR>There may ...

The latest version of Apple’s iWork suite was unveiled at last month’s MacWorld Expo. Featuring applications for word processing (Pages), presentations (Keynote), and spreadsheets (Numbers), iWork is ...

All year long that word was everywhere. It was something we could believe in. It was something that mattered. But by the end of 2008 it was not, most definitely, richly jingling in our pockets. The ...