Microsoft office 2008 crashes.

Hi,
I was thinking about getting a new macbook and wanted to buy Microsoft Office 2008, but I have heard from a few reviews that it crashes sometimes. Is this true and does it crash often?

My first programming professor had a sign on his office door:
program: noun - a house where bugs live.
In the last 30 years, nothing has changed. Yes, Office has bugs and it sometimes crashes. Office 2008 is still young in its development cycle. Any version X.0 product was certainly released to the public at least several weeks if not several months too early. When it becomes a version X.1 product the worst of the bugs have been removed with the exception of the really intractable ones that have bedeviled the programers from day one. At X.2 the product is stable except for a coterie of bugs that are annoying a vocal minority. At X.3 (if not X.2) the developer feels confident enough about the product that a few features that had to be scrapped to make the delivery date are added. This, of course, brings with it some new bugs. And so on....
In the initial release I found Word to be very crash prone on my otherwise rock solid system. The first update cleared up most of the problems and since the second update in August, I can't remember crashing Word. I haven't used Excel much since I need macros for the files I run - I'm still using Excel 2004 for the most part.

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