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Redmond gives dates and prices for new Mac Office
Microsoft today released some more info on the upcoming Office 2008 for Mac.
The business suite will be available to users 16 January. Long after the original target date of fall 2007, but hey, it's under a year after PC users got Office 2007.
When Office for Mac finally does ship, it will come in three flavors.
The $399 standard business version that will have Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage, as well as support for Exchange server and Automator scripts.
For an extra hundred bucks, users can also get a new program called Expression Media that manages and catalogues digital media content.
The basic home/student setup (the business version minus the Exchange and Automater stuff) will run about $150. It's far more than iLife, and certainly far more than OpenOffice, but let's face it, Office isn't going away any time soon. As long as it's the standard in the vast majority of businesses, even Mac users will adopt it in droves.
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