New Office for Mac Coming

Office for Mac users who’ve been wondering about a new version — and Office 2007 compatibility — got some answers today as Microsoft said it will ship Office for Mac 2008 by year’s end. At MacWorld in San Francisco, officials of Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit also announced plans for spring delivery of beta versions of converters that will allow the current version of the popular suite, Office for Mac 2004, to open, edit, and save files in Office 2007’s new default XML formats for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The final converters will appear six to eight weeks after Office for Mac 2008 ships