Obviously, you are not very fast. Of course, it is speculation. One key word is "could".
I imagine that if I worship Apple, my speculation is going to be accepted his holiness.
Just pathetic!
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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Updated for MacBook Pro Retina Display
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Obviously, you are not very fast. Of course, it is speculation. One key word is "could".
I imagine that if I worship Apple, my speculation is going to be accepted his holiness.
Just pathetic!
Now that's funny. After 1.5 hours with MS support wiping EVERYTHING MS related from my computer and installing the update, I still had pixellated programs. I ran the above commands and it's MUCH better. Funny how the MS tech couldn't figure that out, and he claimed the updates were NOT to fix retina issues...
Again? I can name a number of products which they have kick butt on in the past 10 years. .NET and ASP.NET, SQL Server, Xbox, Windows Server, Visual Studio, Windows Azure, SharePoint, Office. Many people just don't have much insight of the business Microsoft is and what their products are. I don't know, maybe it is because many people don't work in a corporate computing environment. Come on now, Windows client OS isn't their only product. It's time to let go of the Mac vs Windows non-war. Steve Jobs himself let go of "Mac vs Windows", to some degree, when he was hired back with Apple so many years ago. He said something in regards of, if we make it all about us versus them, we will lose. If someone has the exact quote, feel free to post.
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Its absolutely hilarious how naive people are when it comes to how much corporate America is driven by Microsoft products. Everything from fortune 500 to smaller sized companies. I cant tell you have many smaller shops Ive seen that have SQL Server SSIS/SSRS implementation.
Its amazing how much Microsoft contributes....sorry some people won't understand this like the typical 21 yo at Starbucks with his/her $2 grand Mac Pro that mommy and daddy financed for them.
That was at Macworld 1997, the same one where Jobs announced the partnership with Microsoft (which the audience booed) when Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. Here's the full paragraph:
I cant get the uodate to install.It almost finishes installing but fails on the validation .. I even created a new User account, clean but the Update failed there too..
Anyone else have that problem? I have a new Retina Display Macbookpro. and Mountain Lion, 10.8.2 Updated yesterday)
Does power nap handle this? Is Google sketch up updated for retina?
Now we just have to wait a decade for autodesk revit to be a native
app.
Now we just have to wait a decade for autodesk revit to be a native
app.
NOW I have retina support. I'm glad I checked here for how to fix Microsoft's attempt.
Anyone else having this problem?
My arrow cursor in Word stutters and flicks back and forth when I move it - from this update.
My arrow cursor in Word stutters and flicks back and forth when I move it - from this update.
Microsoft office has always looked "Retina" when you're rMBP is set to the natural resolution of the screen using Scaled, More Space.
Office always scales nicely to the screen resolution.
However, the recommended retina setting has a weird scaling, and so the Office Update was necessary when using the recommended Apple retina setting.
Scaled, More Space isn't the natural resolution of the screen. It may look nicer there, but...
Thanks for the fix here for MS's failed update
Also - FWIW - I can't execute 'sudo touch' on my work machine, as I'm not admin. However, just 'touch' appears to work.
Actually, scaled, more space is the natural "native" resolution of the screen. It's just not how Apple ships it.
Big whoop
So, if Word, Excel, Powerpoint would open files I get from PC users correctly, I might get excited, but these apps open and the text is invisible. Makes them tough to read. The only solution is to change the font. Interesting that these are the ONLY apps I have problems with.
So, if Word, Excel, Powerpoint would open files I get from PC users correctly, I might get excited, but these apps open and the text is invisible. Makes them tough to read. The only solution is to change the font. Interesting that these are the ONLY apps I have problems with.
Installation Failure
Hi - Have OSX 10.8.2 (non retina Macbook Pro) and trying to install this update - the process seems to complete but then the installer gives me a message "Installer encountered serious error" and t the top it says "you might want to try the install again" - tried multiple times - anyoen else get this failure?
Hi - Have OSX 10.8.2 (non retina Macbook Pro) and trying to install this update - the process seems to complete but then the installer gives me a message "Installer encountered serious error" and t the top it says "you might want to try the install again" - tried multiple times - anyoen else get this failure?
Why? I have Pages, Keynote and Numbers as well as Office. As much as I want them to be fully compatible, they just aren't. I get some pretty complex Excel spreadsheets with embedded formulas and hooks into Oracle databases....Numbers just doesn't work. I also have to develop and write process documentation available to hundreds on SharePoints....doing it in Pages and saving it as a Word doc really causes alot of problems.
Personally I like Pages, and use it for my personal stuff....
I need compatibility with files from work. If I didn't have Mac Office, I'd need to have a Windows PC at home.
Heres a step by step walk through
Just updated mine and my spouse rMBPs tonight using cnets help. Didn't happen to see if this was already posted, but if anyone still needs a fix:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57516767-263/get-office-2011-working-in-retina-display-mode/
Just updated mine and my spouse rMBPs tonight using cnets help. Didn't happen to see if this was already posted, but if anyone still needs a fix:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57516767-263/get-office-2011-working-in-retina-display-mode/
Which platform can I switch to in order to get away from this type of utter immaturity?
Thanks all for the "touch" advice. Being able to run Office 2011 in OSX is going to save my bacon. I've been trying to run Office 2013 in Windows 8 in Parallels and while it was surprisingly stable all things considered, it was a major pain in the ass.
Thanks for the 'touch' Terminal commands! That did the trick.
Various graphics here and there were probably either left out for future updates or were overlooked. I can see more than just the styles that weren't updated in Word (for example, the margin arrows). No big deal. Most of what I see has been updatedespecially the text, which is what really mattersso I'm happy. I'm quite surprised Microsoft released this update so quickly.Actually, it is NOT "fully" Retina!
Look at the "Styles". I just wanna know if I need to delete some old file? Anyone? Cheers!
Seeing that Microsoft doesn't have to support Apple, it's a pretty quick turnaround. Microsoft supports their products AND Apple's. But Apple? No. Us only.
