All these people using Leopard... what do you guys do about incompatibilities with apps? I'm particularly worried about Word. Has kept me from upgrading.
Well recent-ish switchers like me have no Apps or have bought their apps when people were already prepping up for Leopard. Like me, I switched in August/September and have slowly been building up my app collection since then, purchasing as I go along. I have, for example, CS3 not CS2 because CS2 is no longer being supported, so with the choice I went for CS3 (HUGE educational discount - Score for the younger switcher! lol) and since people like me have no Mac compatible apps from before, we just get the new stuff which is already Leopard compatible or being worked on to make it Leopard compatible.
Personally, I've encountered one application problem and that's Adium not logging into MSN. So I downloaded Messenger for Mac and used that (which is buggy and horrible, and soon ended up uninstalled again

Thankfully, there are other options available). Other than that, I've had nothing.
But for seasoned Mac users, the problems will probably be quite plentiful. I'm making a guess that you'll probably run into a few problems, but Leopard is pretty well supported and most of your apps should be fine. And if worst comes to the worst, you can always use an alternative - for Word, you can temporarily use TextEdit which handles .doc files reasonably well until a patch or new version comes along (I've been using TextEdit for most of my school work in the past few months since I can't afford iWork - It's reasonable. Beggars can't be choosers.) but maybe someone will be able to confirm whether or not it works on their Leopard for you so that you can know whether or not upgrading is going to mess everything up for you
