Microsoft Office for Mac Sees Major Price Cuts: Fear of Google?

As is traditional, Microsoft's latest version of its hugely successful Office productivity suite hit the Mac platform a year after it hit Microsoft's own Windows. But Mac users get a bonus Windows users don't: a huge price cut.

Not all the versions get chopped as drastically; the Home and Student edition only went from $150 to $120, a noticeable but not particularly notable cut. But the Office for Home and Business edition went from a whopping $400 for the last version, Office 2008, to half...