Editing Microsoft Office (section)

====Office 2008====
[[Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac]] was released on January 15, 2008. It was the only Office for Mac suite to be compiled as a [[universal binary]], being the first to feature native [[Apple–Intel architecture|Intel]] support and the last to feature PowerPC support for [[PowerPC G4|G4]] and [[PowerPC 970|G5]] processors, although the suite is unofficially compatible with [[PowerPC 7xx|G3]] processors. New features include native Office Open XML file format support, which debuted in Office 2007 for Windows,<ref name="history" /> and stronger [[Microsoft Office password protection]] employing [[Advanced Encryption Standard|AES-128]] and [[SHA-1]]. Benchmarks suggested that compared to its predecessor, Office 2008 ran at similar speeds on Intel machines and slower speeds on PowerPC machines.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 13, 2008 |title=MS Mactopia Blog |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/131943/2008/02/office_benchmarks.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117161519/http://www.macworld.com/article/131943/2008/02/office_benchmarks.html |archive-date=November 17, 2011 |access-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref> Office 2008 also lacked [[Visual Basic for Applications]] (VBA) support, leaving it with only 15 months of additional mainstream support compared to its predecessor. Nevertheless, five months after it was released, Microsoft said that Office 2008 was "selling faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years" and affirmed "its commitment to future products for the Mac."<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Microsoft Mac BU Delivers Strongest Launch in History of Office for Mac |date=May 13, 2008 |publisher=Microsoft |url=https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-13MacBU2008PR.mspx |access-date=October 30, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218151825/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-13MacBU2008PR.mspx |archive-date=December 18, 2010}}</ref>