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1. MICROSOFT OFFICE 2008 MAC REQUIREMENTS MAC OS X
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3. MICROSOFT OFFICE 2008 MAC REQUIREMENTS SOFTWARE

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2008 MAC REQUIREMENTS SOFTWARE

Word processing and electronic spreadsheets have always been the workhorses of business software applications. Now, I expect that I will be challenged or flamed over this on the grounds that 1-2-3 and WordPerfect never constituted an actual "Suite", but that's just semantic baloney. I don't mean to denigrate you or your review, but I think you ought not to make such comments unless you are familiar with the history of Macintosh business applications, a history that goes back almost 25 years. In fact, when 1-2-3 was released, Excel (version 2.2 at the time) was clearly inferior to it. In the early to mid-1990s, both products were excellent and were serious challengers to Microsoft's offerings. I don't think you are aware of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect for Macintosh. enough so that for the first time ever Microsoft has some real competition for office suites on the Mac." Gandalf90125 - Saturday, Februlink "iWork is.Of Office stack up to its competition? Let’s take a look and find out. The last four years in developing Office 2008 and how does the latest iteration So what exactly has the Mac Business Unit been up to over Never the less it has more than enough new with it that it can stand on its Will end up buying Office 2008 anyhow just for the universal binary support but Microsoft has taken the time to give Office 2004 a significant overhaul inįunctionality on top of the changes in its underpinnings, all of the OfficeĪpplications have been given a makeover in some way or another. Thankfully they didn’t do that, in the four years between Office releases Process just from users willing to buy Office again just to escape Rosetta.

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2008 MAC REQUIREMENTS FULL

Then sold it as a full price upgrade, and make a tidy sum of money in the To clean up Office 2004 so that it could be compiled as a universal binary and

Ultimately Microsoft could have just done the bare minimum On modern Macs under Rosetta, in spite of the relatively lightweight nature ofĪn office suite it’s usable but not in any way fast or snappy. Mac users happy with the performance of it. Rosetta emulation layer to run older PowerPC-only software, you won’t find many Get the same answer: universal binary/x86 support. Years about what they’re waiting for the most in Office 2008 and you’ll always Porting Microsoft’s entire Mac product catalog to OS X, rebuilding Virtual PCįor the G5 processor (only for Apple to drop PPC entirely a short time later)Īnd now the latest stop: x86 processors and universal binaries.Īsk any Mac user who has purchased a Mac within the last two Of Apple, Microsoft has been along for Apple’s wild ride at every step and weĬan’t imagine a company that normally has such a strong focus on backwardsĬompatibility enjoying it all that much. As one of the largest Macintosh developers outside Very seldom will you find us feeling even the least bit sorryįor an 800lb gorilla, let alone the gorilla that is Microsoft, but this wouldīe one of those few times.

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2008 MAC REQUIREMENTS MAC OS X

Moving to x86 processors, and a couple GUI style redesigns to round things out.Īpple’s desire to keep Mac OS X modern means backwards compatibility can take aīut what does this have to do with Office 2008? Practically This decade alone has seen Apple makeĪ major operating transition with Mac OS X, a major hardware transition in When it comes to software, Apple makes no attempt to hide orĮxcuse their breakneck development pace.