Sales of Microsoft's Office for Mac upgrade up 228 percent.

Worldwide upgrade unit sales of Microsoft Office for Macintosh shot up 228 percent in the year ending June 30 compared to the previous year, Microsoft says. During the same period, new user licenses grew 58 percent. More than 3.6 million units of Microsoft Word For Mac have shipped, making it

the all-time best-selling word processing program for the Mac. Nearly 3 million units of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program for Mac have shipped, adding 500,000 users in one year. And more than 1.2 million units of Microsoft's PowerPoint presentations program for Mac have shipped, adding a half million users in one year. "Microsoft Office for Macintosh and Power Macintosh has topped our bestseller list for 10 of the last 12 months," adds Ken Krich, president of Computerware, a San Francisco-based Macintosh reseller.