MicrosoftÂ?s Macintosh Business Unit unveiled details about Office 2008 productivity tools for Mac, which will ship in the second half of 2007. Office 2008 for Mac, which runs natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based machines, shares some technologies with Office 2007 for Windows. The productivity suite provides compatibility between different versions and will use the Office Open XML Formats for saving and opening files in either platform.

Other Office 2008 for Mac features include:

• Publishing Layout View for creating layout-rich documents in Word
• Ledger Sheets that enables Excel to handle financial management tasks including budgets, invoices, and registers without making complex formulas
• My Day for tracking daily priorities and tasks regardless if application without launching OfficeÂ?s Entourage personal information manager

Price of Office 2008 for Mac will be revealed by Microsoft later.