Microsoft Declares Office 2008 Ready for Snow Leopard, Most 'Spaces' Issues Fixed

[MacRumors]

In a blog post today, Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit senior product manager Mike Tedesco announces that Office 2008 has been tested with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and declared ready for use. Importantly, Tedesco also notes that most of the issues related to Office 2008's interaction with Apple's "Spaces" feature have been fixed in Snow Leopard through the combined efforts of Apple and Microsoft.

Q. Are there any differences with Office 2008 for Mac running on Snow Leopard vs. Leopard?
A. Office 2008 for Mac is Snow Leopard tested and ready! Best of all, with the launch of Snow Leopard, the bulk of the Word 2008 Spaces issues have been fixed after our collaborative efforts to address the problem.

The Spaces bugs present with Office 2008 and Leopard have been viewed as a significant usability issue for many users, but Microsoft has repeatedly placed responsibility for fixing the problems on Apple, citing Apple's implementation of Spaces as the root cause. Based on today's posting, it appears that the two companies have finally worked through the majority of the issues related to Spaces and Office 2008, although Tedesco's wording suggests that there may still be lingering bug or two.

Article Link: Microsoft Declares Office 2008 Ready for Snow Leopard, Most 'Spaces' Issues Fixed

 

[ouimetnick]

Good to see Microsoft cares about Apple and Mac OS X.

 

[jav6454]

Oddly enough, Microsoft is actually working.

 

[peepboon]

Finally! The first time it happened to me I was about to flip the table because I thought I lost my course work! lol

 

[alphaod]

I noticed that if you hide the toolbox before switching spaces there really isn't an issue… of course it's good to know they fixed it now.

 

[22Hertz]

WOW...spaces works with Office 2008?!

"Tedesco's wording suggests that there may still be lingering bug or two"

Not with a Microsoft product, surely it isn't so

 

[milbournosphere]

Finally!

Just fixing the spaces issue in Office 2008 alone makes Snow Leopard worth buying. I will definitely purchase SL today after I get off of work.

 

[wankey]

Installing Snow Leopard now for the this alone.

 

[scotty588]

If Office 2008 is Snow Leopard comptable, then why are the updates not installing for me and giving me a database error when I start Word up. Doesn't fix the problem even after running the database utility.

 

[helix21]

Brilliant!
My personal number one 'refinement' of snow leopard

 

[22Hertz]

Have you tried downloading the update from the website?

I had to do that on Leopard to get mine working.
After the first update the built in updater worked fine.

 

[celticpride678]

Wait, Microsoft worries about OS X?

But anyways, thanks for finally fixing it! How about people with Leopard??

 

[tosui]

Can anyone report whether Office 2004 works on Leopard?

(Sorry, but I'm still using my 12" PowerBook - upgrading Mac & OS next week!)

 

[scotty588]

Have you tried downloading the update from the website?

I had to do that on Leopard to get mine working.
After the first update the built in updater worked fine.

Yep, that is the installer from the site.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

If Office 2008 is Snow Leopard comptable, then why are the updates not installing for me and giving me a database error when I start Word up. Doesn't fix the problem even after running the database utility.

Did you reinstall it under 10.6 or did you do an in place upgrade? I just did a clean install and i'm going to install Office 2008 in a minute.

 

[scotty588]

Did you reinstall it under 10.6 or did you do an in place upgrade? I just did a clean install and i'm going to install Office 2008 in a minute.

Clean install of Snow Leopard.
There is a post (here) on the Microsoft forums talking about this issue.

 

[SystemZERO]

Augh, that Spaces glitch aggravated me so much in Word! It's about time!

 

[bucksaddle]

Clean install of Snow Leopard.
There is a post (here) on the Microsoft forums talking about this issue.

I had the same issue but you have to install SP1 (12.1.0) before you can install SP2 (12.2.0) (as I found out in the system requirements for SP2).
I also had the same database error issue, just delete the database from your Documents/Microsoft Office folder and restart Word - that should fix it.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Finally, Apple!

 

[shakenmartini]

I've been trying to break spaces with SL and Office 2008 and so far, the bugs from Leopard seem to be squashed.

HOWEVER, given the track record I won't call it for a week of hard use though.

 

[peter893]

Does the Office 08 installer require Rosetta to be installed? I vaguely remember reading this somewhere...

 

[bdkennedy1]

Interesting. I did a clean install of Snow Leopard and a clean install of Office 2008...

- Rosetta needed to be installed.
- Everytime I open an office program I get a database corruption error.
- Office Service Pack 2 will not install on my machine because it does not detect that Office is installed.

Doesn't sound compatible to me.

 

[scotty588]

I had the same issue but you have to install SP1 (12.1.0) before you can install SP2 (12.2.0) (as I found out in the system requirements for SP2).
I also had the same database error issue, just delete the database from your Documents/Microsoft Office folder and restart Word - that should fix it.

I have both updates downloaded and I am pretty sure I tried that, but will try again.

 

[GoCubsGo]

AOL Keyword: Declares

 

[scotty588]

Thank you bucksaddle that worked!