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

So is it the installer that is still PPC code, or is all of Office 08 PPC code requiring Rosetta?

Whats up with that?

Im all for leaving Legacy PPC entirely behind...

bdkennedy1 said:
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.
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It frustrates me that there are people here who whine and yet create their own personal hell; don't use 'slimming' applications and follow the update instructions from Microsoft. Do them both and the problems won't arise.

But hey - according to some here as demonstrate by their actions, they're apparently towering intellectual giants compared to Microsoft programmers *rolls eyes*
 
Great. About time.

Did they ever fix the bug that makes "compare documents" crash *every single time*?

Or the one where pasting a table from excel turns it into an embedded XML document that can't be edited in Word 2007.

If they did, Office 2008 might actually be worth using now...
 
No database errors here with a clean install of Snow Leopard although I did notice that Microsoft Autoupdate isn't working properly: It scans and says "no updates available" when there most definitely are updates available (a fresh install is 12.0.0, and patches exist up to 12.2.1).

Manually downloading each update from Microsoft worked just fine, however.
 
tosui said:
Can anyone report whether Office 2004 works on Leopard?

(Sorry, but I'm still using my 12" PowerBook - upgrading Mac & OS next week!)
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According to the MacCast, if an app running on Rosetta is found (Office 2004 for example), SL will install Rosetta. So the answer is yes.
 
Anyone else getting these "missing bundle identifier" errors, all pertaining to office .pkg files, if you run softwareupdate -l from the command line?
 
Uh, wasn't MS suppose to stop selling Word because of a court order? Does that only apply to the MS OS version?
 
jpine said:
Uh, wasn't MS suppose to stop selling Word because of a court order? Does that only apply to the MS OS version?
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They can sell Office, just not Word in of itself.

Not to mention the company that claims to own the patents relating to Word exists solely to create lawsuits, anyway. I imagine the ruling will eventually be overturned.
 
Quillz said:
They can sell Office, just not Word in of itself.

Not to mention the company that claims to own the patents relating to Word exists solely to create lawsuits, anyway. I imagine the ruling will eventually be overturned.
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Are there a lot of users who would buy the Office without the inclusion of Word? I don't think I would any time soon. Not that I use Word. I prefer pages or NeoOffice.
 
jpine said:
Are there a lot of users who would buy the Office without the inclusion of Word? I don't think I would any time soon. Not that I use Word. I prefer pages or NeoOffice.
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I don't think it's even possible to buy Word outside of Office, which is the point. The injunction really won't affect Microsoft at all. There are always legal loopholes.

I actually find NeoOffice terrible, although Pages is fine for typical day-to-day usage.
 
Quillz said:
I don't think it's even possible to buy Word outside of Office, which is the point. The injunction really won't affect Microsoft at all. There are always legal loopholes.

I actually find NeoOffice terrible, although Pages is fine for typical day-to-day usage.
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So what you're saying is that MS can't sell Word as a standalone product (which they don't do anyway), but they can sell it if it is "bundled" into another product called "Office?" Gotta love courts and their rulings.

I actually wrote my dissertation on Pages. NeoOffice is nothing to write home about (no pun intended), but for my needs, it's not bad. You certainly can't beat the price.
 
Quillz said:
I don't think it's even possible to buy Word outside of Office, which is the point. The injunction really won't affect Microsoft at all. There are always legal loopholes.

I actually find NeoOffice terrible, although Pages is fine for typical day-to-day usage.
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I'd love to use iWork a lot more but I simply can't because it lacks a built in Bibliography that supports Chicago style bibliographies and citations; if Apple added that plus a few other features - the reason for many students like myself purchasing Office 2008 would cease. I do very little correspondence with university and what I do is only for reading and anything sent back is in PDF format.
 
jpine said:
So what you're saying is that MS can't sell Word as a standalone product (which they don't do anyway), but they can sell it if it is "bundled" into another product called "Office?" Gotta love courts and their rulings.

I actually wrote my dissertation on Pages. NeoOffice is nothing to write home about (no pun intended), but for my needs, it's not bad. You certainly can't beat the price.
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http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-059..._1_7?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1251527553&sr=8-7

Word 2007. Stand alone. Still in stock at Amazon.

And the injunction is on hold while Microsoft appeals, so they can still sell it as I understand it.

Just an FYI. :)
 
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I'm glad Office 2008 will work on SL with out problems. Though I am not forced to use Word anymore, I have come to love the Notebook page layout and all its functions for taking notes in class.
 
"Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me twice..."

Office 2004 works just terrifficly on my MBA

I'll stick with 2004, which I reinstalled after ditching Office 2008
 
MacRumors said:
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.
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Sounds like M$ isn't used to being in the passenger seat when it comes to app development, being an O/S maker themselves. It's the third party's job to rework their software to compatability with the O/S, not the O/S maker's job to bend to the application developer's will.
 
spillproof said:
I'm glad Office 2008 will work on SL with out problems.
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Still got the same bugs that I notice. For example, if I have a window open on my 24" monitor, then disconnect the monitor, the window appears fairly small on my MBP screen but cannot be resized. Other bugs include crashing (esp when graphs are pasted from Excel), and various visual artifacts.. etc etc

Office 2008 is the buggiest S/W I have. Sadly, it's also the among the most useful.
 
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How About Excel?

Ever since upgrading to Leopard Server and client,(from Tiger) when an excel file is put on the server and 4 to six people share, all hell breaks loose. I wish I could have one day of "changes cannot be made to this file because you do not have permission" (But the user is part of a group that HAS PERMISSION to the share point the file is on as well as being added to the shared list within excel.
The only way I have been able to fix is to log in the server as root, copy the file to a flash drive. delete from server, open from a client and re-save to server. Anybody have similar issues?
 
Quillz said:
Not to mention the company that claims to own the patents relating to Word exists solely to create lawsuits, anyway. I imagine the ruling will eventually be overturned.
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Source? I've actually heard that the company used its format that Microsoft stole, and is in fact a real company, not just there to sue big companies. In fact there are many internal documents of Microsoft showing that employees knew of the patent and chose to ignore it hoping they wouldn't get caught.
 
bdkennedy1 said:
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.
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Ugh, I hope that's not what awaits me. Sorry to hear about your troubles. Honestly if I didn't use MS Office 2008 on my work uMBP and get it for free from school for my personal uMBP, I'd just be using OpenOffice or iWork. MS Office just isn't worth the trouble.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
Source? I've actually heard that the company used its format that Microsoft stole, and is in fact a real company, not just there to sue big companies. In fact there are many internal documents of Microsoft showing that employees knew of the patent and chose to ignore it hoping they wouldn't get caught.
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Yes.

The company has actually been using their patents. They are a real company, they've been in business since 1993. It has already been shown that MS knew of the patent issues and then went ahead and knowingly, wilfully, committed the violation. A jury found them guilty of this in connection with this case.
 
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