From M$$$$’s Mac Business Unit, the gaggle that’s too busy to get Office ‘08 out the door in a timely fashion:
This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.
Via AutoUpdate or direct download,
This about whether iWork will do the job, as most do not need the full functionality of Office. It is why AppleWorks (formerly Clarisworks) has lasted so long and still popular.See “A Brief History of ClarisWorks“.