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Microsoft to End Support for Office 2008 for Mac on April 9
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Good thing I bought one of the last multi-user packs of Office 2011 before they stopped selling them. Guess I'm set with Office for the next 4-5 years.
ETA - looks like the old PC I'm running will need replacing before next April then since it's only running XP.
ETA - looks like the old PC I'm running will need replacing before next April then since it's only running XP.
Apple was hiring a team of people to work on the next version of iWork for Mac. My guess is they're targeting a release for the next US school year and we can expect them to announce it this summer (possibly at WWDC?)
They either need to step up their game with support for drawing diagrams and equations or they need to open up the applications a bit and allow plugins to be written for it by developers. (They let developers write plugins for Safari, so I don't see why they wouldn't allow them for iWork, too... plus they already allow a few select developers to write plugins for iWork, just not ordinary indie developers like me.)
Who cares about MSOffice (Yawn...)
iWork is a fine office suite and OpenOffice is great too.
One reason less to use a MS product.....
iWork is a fine office suite and OpenOffice is great too.
One reason less to use a MS product.....
What could they possibly update in it?
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Excel > Numbers, big time.
Other than that, I use iWork. It's much nicer except when you need features that Numbers lacks.
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Excel > Numbers, big time.
Other than that, I use iWork. It's much nicer except when you need features that Numbers lacks.
I installed new updates this week on Windows XP SP3. IIRC 3 updates: IE 7 security update (IE 8 causes problems), Win XP security update, and MS Malware Detection updates.
Depends on what you have and what you need. I bought 2013 for my Surface Pro and went back and exchanged it for 365. You get more software in 365 + extra Skydrive space and can stick it on multiple computers.
I needed Access and OneNote and have 3 computers at home so 365 was a better deal once I understood what it came with.
Someone should probably let Microsoft know about that, since they seem to think that Windows XP is still supported (at least for another year): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help.
Doesn't your employer need to have an Enterprise Agreement in place to implement this?
I hope they give 365 subscribers the choice between 2011 and the new one. I quite like 2011, it reminds me of iWork.
365 gets automatic updates, I suppose you could turn it off if you'd like. However based on current trends, each subsequent versions should be more optimized for battery life.
Here, with respect, I think the point is not that a great many people who post on this forum have Macs, prefer them, and really like the Mac OS, and its set of closed internally logical and nicely designed systems. On a forum such as this, that seems to be to be pretty much a given.
We know that Mac is good, but, and it is a big but, most of the world uses Windows, and our computers need to be able to talk to their computers without stuttering,
Thus, the point is that most of the rest of the world still uses Windows machines, and, in order to communicate competently and easily with that work world, some of us use - and have to use - Office for Mac. I do, and actually, professionally, it is a deal breaker for me, as every organisation and university I have ever worked for use hardly anything other than Windows. hence, Office for Mac will always be on my computer, irrespective of what else lives there.
I see a security update in a blue moon. Office 2004 still works fine on my black MacBook (2006) and Snow Leopard. Now that Office 2008 is not being supported, its time for me to upgrade.
So when you buy a Sony Blu-ray player, you should only connect it to a Sony TV, a Sony audio system and only watch Sony movies on it?
I would use MS Office if it were a complete package that could be bought rather than paying a subscription. I want a set of program's that is the final product, and I don't want to $10 a month for MS to fix its bugs. Subscription is a stupid business model that alienates people.
So you are comparing a major operating system to an office suite that is probably used only by a handful of users? hmmmm
Some of us have issues with MS that we just won't let go of..
PlayonLinux runs Office just fine
Lucky for you that you only started using Apple recently. You would have been able to find no reason to use a Mac before Apple came up with this "walled-garden" approach.
Thankfully a few of us could come up with plenty of other reasons to use a Mac back then. Even if it did require using services from other developers. :gasp:
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You are complaining that Microsoft is stopping support for a five year old product when Apple routinely drop features and support systems for hardware and OS that was released a couple of years ago?
Didn't they have their support lifecycle as 2 years (or was it 4) after the product after the one released is released, or when this product is 5 years old, whichever is later?
Eg, Office 2004 supported until 2 years after 2011 is released, 2008 supported until 2 years after 201x is released (probably 2014).
True, its been 5 years, but there is no new Office.
Eg, Office 2004 supported until 2 years after 2011 is released, 2008 supported until 2 years after 201x is released (probably 2014).
True, its been 5 years, but there is no new Office.