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3-16-2008 @ 9:25AM
Sam said...
I'd be skeptical to upgrade to 2008. Its slow as hell and isn't as intuitive or ground breaking as 2007. People have been giving 2007 flak for a while now, but their fundamental design changes actually made it easier to find things that you didn't know existed. 2008 isn't any of that, and the coding is horrible. MacBU needs a bigger budget or to work more closely with the actual apple, inc.
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3-16-2008 @ 9:42AM
Luigi193 said...
We wouldn't want our memory overwritten with malicious code now would we?
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3-16-2008 @ 10:53AM
Unregistered said...
Thank God there's Open Office (for my iBook on 10.4).
Unfortunately I don't know how to get it working with the X11 in 10.5 on my mac mini (considering getting Office 2008)
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3-16-2008 @ 11:00AM
james said...
that's one reason why i swear by neooffice, neooffice, neooffice! www.neooffice.org.
unrelated... wouldn't this post have been news, oh, three days ago?
3-16-2008 @ 11:35AM
rob said...
@3 : the X11.app in leopard is pretty broken. you can download updates to X11 for leopard at xquartz.macports.org.
someday apple will pick up these changes and release them thru software updater.
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3-16-2008 @ 11:48AM
goat said...
Another vote for NeoOffice!
3-17-2008 @ 11:50AM
Unregistered said...
Thanks for the info!
I think I shall go try iWork and NeoOffice before I even think of Office 2008.
3-16-2008 @ 1:31PM
Ed said...
And yet, another vote here for NeoOffice. It kicks Microsoft word 2008 ass.
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3-16-2008 @ 2:33PM
Peter Payne said...
WHY IS EXCEL SLOWER ON MY WIFE'S MACBOOK AIR THAN OLD EXCEL WAS ON HER 5 YEAR OLD POWERBOOK?
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3-16-2008 @ 2:56PM
jsw said...
One word: Rosetta. Office 2004 is built for PowerPC, and the Intel Macs run PowerPC applications through a translator, which slows things down and (in my experience) creates some odd behavior in Office generally, or at least in Word, which is what I use for client compatibility. The problems for me are keyboard lockups mostly, which can be fixed by clicking out to a different program and then back into Office. Annoying, but not fatal.
3-16-2008 @ 3:20PM
icruise said...
JSW -- I'm not sure what you mean by keyboard lockups, but Office 2004 has an issue where you hit a key and then nothing will happen for quite a while unless you hit another key or move the mouse. I believe this actually occurs on both PowerPC and Intel computers, so I don't think it's related to Rosetta. I remember complaining about it when Office first came out.
And I question the claim that Excel is slower on a MBA than a 5-year-old PowerBook (which one are we talking about here, Peter?) For a long time, I used a 12" PowerBook G4 as my mobile and a 1.83Ghz Intel iMac as my main computer, and Office was clearly faster on the iMac. It's even faster on my new MacBook Pro (although it is admittedly no speed demon on any machine).
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3-16-2008 @ 6:06PM
jsw said...
I'm not sure what you mean by keyboard lockups, but Office 2004 has an issue where you hit a key and then nothing will happen for quite a while unless you hit another key or move the mouse.
I've never had that happen, but when I moved from my old Powerbook to my new MacBook Pro, suddenly Word would simply stop taking keyboard input and block system-wide keyboard inputs (e.g., Alt-Tab). It's most common when the search window is up, but it happens at other times as well. The mouse still works, so I just click on the desktop and back on the Word window and can type again, but it's annoying. Maybe it's Leopard, since that borked all sorts of things (mostly in iCal and Applescript, which suggests what Apple's priorities are), but since the problem goes so directly to the input, I'm guessing it's Rosetta.
3-16-2008 @ 6:16PM
icruise said...
Funny, I've never had that happen (and I use Office daily in my job).
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3-17-2008 @ 12:21AM
punkassjim said...
I love the fact that this tech bulletin applies to SO MANY versions of Office. Seems to affect everything back to Office 2000 on Windows. That's a long time for a vulnerability to be in existence, even if no one found it till now.
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3-17-2008 @ 5:47AM
BlackSmileFR said...
Please Do not buy Office 2008 it's incredible!!
No seriously it's full of bugs, slow and nothing changes as 2007 for windows does (interface). The update they made a few time ago change nothing on my computer (spaces and expose still crappy).
+ No support for Mathtype ; no support for Office 2007 equation (lol ; that's the funniest).
After all that noise they made about it, such a big company : it's scary
So vote for NeoOffice and iWork
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3-17-2008 @ 5:47AM
BlackSmileFR said...
Oops missing
and/ or keep office 2004