bouncybunny - 10:15 am on Aug 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

I've used Office for Mac since OS 8/OS 9 days and it's good. No difference from using it under Windows - same bugs also ;). Entourage is a good email client, similar interface to Outlook and works well with Exchange servers - although I use about 12 different pop email accounts and haven't emptied my inboxes for about 4 yeas, so it is getting kind of slow these days. If you're starting from scratch, you may as well use the built in Mail app though - it's a bit less klunky apparently.

Word and Excel are no different from the Windows versions. The only thing not in the Mac version is Access, which I can live without.

Having said that, I am still on Office 2004. I've heard that the initial release of Office 2008 had a few issues, so you may want to see if there have been any service packs since then.