MS Office 2008/2011 be enough? 2011 is so restrictive -One computer/user, what if you own 2? - Really?

Just installed Lion and my 2004 MS Office will not work. Wish I had known that before upgrading... 2008 is less restrictive and costly than 2011. Is there that much difference between the 2?

gifts4me wrote:
Thank you for your response. I am in an industry that is still very PC driven and use Word, Excel etc. it seems for everything and quite frankly that is what I am used to as well. Just downloaded Lion without doing any research on it. Dumb... I liked the new Mail features( wish Snow Leopard had them) I saw on a friends computer and ran home to get it. Woah! Right now I am sorry I did. I ran to the Genius Bar yesterday to switch back but found out I have to erase my hard drive, hours of work to make sure everything is backed up, etc. etc. The tech suggested that I work with it a few days and then decide which is what I am going to do. He said all of their product comes loaded with Lion now. I don't like some of the new features at all - Address Book is awkward and not so sure on calendar - this one is just picky. I don't care for the graphic at the top and don't like that you can't change it to something else. We have 3 Mac laptops at home and I would like to be able to load the upgraded version on all three and not have to pay so much more for it. Snow Leopard family pak was only $20. more than single. I saw 2008 works as well and found it for $45.00 -3 user as opposed to $149. from MS for 2011 -3 user as well. So, what to do?
If you have moved your Mobile Me account you can not go back, regardess of what the Genius said.
Office 2008 for $45 is a good price and there are cheaper aternatives (Open Office etc are fully compatible with MS Office)
Don't go back, go forward.

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B

From the perspectives of performance, stability and compatibility, which version of Office is the best choice for this old iMac?
2008.
I currely have a Mac Pro running Office 2011, can Office 2008 open 2011's files without any difficulty or problem?
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