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Will there be a Mac version of Office 2007? Mac Office and Windows Office are completely different products developed by different teams at Microsoft. Office 2007 for Windows will not appear in a Mac format. Rather, a Mac version of Office will appear later in 2007 and will be called Office 2008. The Mac interface will be different from the Windows Office 2007 interface but the program will be able to read files created with Windows Office 2007. Microsoft has plans to release converters (spring, 2007) for those using older versions of Mac Office.

The information above was derived from Mossberg’s Mailbox, a technology column in the Wall Street Journal (early January, 2007)