Copying Office 2003 in OSX

[macman4789]

Hi guys,

I've been given a copy of MS office 2003 from the IT guy at work (I'm a lecturer) to use at home so nothin dodgy goin on here!

My questions are will I be able to copy this using OSX leopard even though it's a windows based CD?

If so, can I just use the program thats built into OSX to copy it?

And what speed will I have to read and write? (i.e. will there be any copyright protection?)

Thanks for your help

 

[dukebound85]

it wont work on your mac unless you have an intel mac and bootcamp or parralles/fusion/crossover


id opt for macoffice 2004 or 2008 or get openoffice

 

[r.j.s]

^^^ What he said.

Unless you use bootcamp or Fusion/Parallels, that disc is worthless to you.

 

[macman4789]

Sorry guys I forgot to mention yeah I'll be using it on bootcamp or vmware. I just want to know whether I can copy it first using OS X cos I have to give them the cd back and what speed read and write should I use?

Thanks

 

[r.j.s]

Yes, you can technically copy it.

I'd recommend using a free program called Burn.

 

[Gray-Wolf]

You can also use crossover to install it.

 

[macman4789]

Could I use whatever software is built into leopard to copy it?

 

[mkrishnan]

Could I use whatever software is built into leopard to copy it?

Yes, of course you can. Just open Disk Utility and make an image of it. Then you can burn the image back to a disk whenever (or even mount the image and use it in VMWare or Parallels to do the installation).

 

[macman4789]

Thanks guys