Office 2008 for OS X: All style, no substance?

There's plenty of reasons why Mac users will have to upgrade to Office 2008, whether they want to or not. It's the first version of Office that will be offered as a Universal Binary (i.e. it will run natively on Intel processors without the need for software emulation) and will also bring support for the new Office Open XML file format to the Mac faithful. But what else has changed? The folks over at eWeek took a look and found an almost distractingly flashy UI, with something very similar to Office 2004 hiding underneath. "Some buttons actually ripple when you click them and tabs change color when the cursor passes over them. Highlights are color-coded to the application, not to the OS, and so on." Too much eye candy and too little in the way of actual improvements? Head over to eWeek, scope the screenshots and decide for yourself.

For more on Office 2008:
- see this eWeek article