Microsoft office 2008 on mountain lion?

I have the Microsoft office 2008 installed on my 2009 Macbook pro with osx snow leopard, if I install mountain lion on my mac what would happen to my microsoft office and will I still be able to use my 2008 office on Mountain lion?

I'm using Entourage just fine, which is good because Apple Mail is almost as bad as Outlook.  However, with Entourage, I had to delete all the preferences files and rebuild the database, as it was very pokey after the upgrade. 
I'm using Office 2011 apps, and those are fine.  Sorry, but I abandoned the rest of the 2008 suite a while back.... but I just tested Word 2008 and it worked OK... although still much slower launching than 2011, which is almost instantaneous.
Make sure you have a full backup, such as with SuperDuper, on a bootable firewire drive before you attempt it.  Better safe than sorry.

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  • Does microsoft office 2011 work with lion

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    Application Version: 12.3.0.110427
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    Crashed Module Offset: unknown
    Blame Module Name: unknown
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    Blame Module Offset: unknown
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