Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good

[tortoise]

The obvious missing element to this discussion is what type machine are you running, Intel or PPC because that makes a big difference. I had held onto Office 2004 since purchasing my new MacPro based on the negative reviews so prevelant on Office 2008. However after several months of frequent crashes related mostly to Entourage 2004 I figured it could not be any worse and installed Office 2008 and frankly I love it. Lightening fast, have not had a single crash in over a month of use and I even find the interface to be much better than 2004. So the bottom line is if you have Intel machine office 2008 is Intel native and runs great in my experience. I realize it is stylish to bash all MS products here but sometimes it is just a lame position based on incomplete information. The other possibility is your machine is too much of a mess to run anything properly.

Leopard 10.5.6 and Office 2008 running better here than Tiger 10.4 and Office 2004 ever dreamed of doing. Granted Tiger is not even an option on my MacPro but Office 2004 was a total dog.