Between writing the Advanced Sysadmin book, writing for MacTech and Editing at Mactech (and other sundry things), these days, I live in Microsoft Word. After Macworld this year, I wound up with a few copies of Office 2008 and immediately started using Word 2008. Overall, I'm pretty happy. It's Intel native (although it takes longer to launch - ?!?), and has some nicer features than 2004 (not many, though). If I had to purchase it with my own $$, I wouldn't have. Unfortunately, Word is so deep seated that it's sometimes mandatory, depending on who you're working with. One thing about Word 2008 has me so bewildered, though. The dictionary is not built in? Really? I tend to work off-line a lot. Of course, I know that OS X has a great built-in dictionary application, but, if I'm in Word, why launch another app? I try to look up a word (in Word) while getting some writing in on the train, and I'm greeted with this:
Seriously, Microsoft?
