MS office on MBP

how does office run on the MBP, or does it? i got my office and then returned it becasue i was under the impression that it wouldn't work on my new MBP. thanks so everybody for the help.

I agree. Thus far, no significant differences
observed between MBP and PB G4 1.67 (with same amount
of RAM) when using MS Office applications.
That's what I thought would happen. Confirms my decision to wait this one out until the next version of Office is ready - as MS is not going to update Office 2004 to UB. At that point I'll get the latest version of the MBP as well. Thanks!

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