By who? I've never heard this before, I found 2004 is terrible.
Mine Minimizes just fine with double click actually I've yet to have any issues at all with Safari 4.
Well, by me I guess. I always thought it was highly regarded. I must be mistaken.
edit: just looking around the web (I'm not trying to say that this means truth, but you just asked whot thought of Office 2004 4 this way - just a snippet):
"Mac Office has been a fantastic product since Office 98. Each iteration has been better and better and from what I've seen 2004 will be a nice polish. But as someone who switches back and forth from Office Mac to Office for Windows all day long, I totally agree with the bashing of the windows product. "
" Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is clearly superior to its PC counterpart for most users. Last fall Microsoft put out a bloated update of Office for Windows that focused more on collaborating with other users than on making it easier for you to get your own work done. The streamlined Office for Mac puts individuals first."
"As a user of Office 2003 for Windows, it was hard not to sit through the demo given by�Jessica Somer, the product manager for Office ‘04, without cringing with jealousy over what is clearly the slickest impelmentation of Office that I’ve ever seen."
"Only on a Mac? Pity!"
"I run Office 2004 for Mac and Office 2000 (jeez, I hate Office 2003: bloatware!) in my XP partition in Parallels on the same machine."
"Now that Office 2004 is coming out for Mac, it just makes Windows users feel that they might as well switch to Mac to enjoy the better version than the crappy one we have now"