Microsoft Office for Macintosh 2004

www.bit-tech.net/article/137

 

The irony that they can make such a better looking, better featured, easier to use product, but only on a non-MS operating system... mmmm mmm

I think I'll be sticking with a PC and OpenOffice.Org for the forseeable future though.

 

Didn't microsoft first develop office for mac before office for PC originally...? Well it really does not matter. Once again microsoft releases new features for mac before pc... figures...

Mac still does not like IE in my opinion through

 

that notebook thing looks pretty funky, but more useful on a tablet pc type thing i'd have thought ??

as for usability, personally i cant stand that thing where the apple bar at the top becomes the application menu bar, does my head in
especially when you dont have a window maximised

transparency, well i dunno about you but i found transparency (in OSX and 2k/XP) cool for about 10mins, after that it just really started to get annoying...

 

with kick-ass twice in 2 lines , it must be a good product!

Its making a Mac lore more tempting by the minute.

 

Transparency

I sent mr. Haz a screen shot of alpha transparency in windows xp with winamp. I use it all the time and all the apps I write in VB.net i use it on.

 

Yeah, transparency's been around since at least Windows 2000. It's just not widely used. ObjectDesktop-like apps and Litestep have been taking advantage of it for ages.

I actually have around here a copy of Ms Excel v1.0....for the Mac, which is where it debuted. As I understand it, there's an old agreement between MS and Apple that Office apps will be updated on the Mac first, then Windows. MS is actually the #1 software provider for the Mac (man, do I sound like an MS shill right now? ) What I'm waiting for is for them to port Visio and Project, the two biggest reasons I use VirtualPC on my Mac.

Oh, and I was hit by the fact that Entourage doesn't import PST files, too. But, in a way, it makes sense. The development team has to pick and choose which features they're going to spend their time on, and the choices were: new features everyone will use all the time or one feature that some people will use once. I can understand from that point of view why it wasn't a high priority. In a corporate environment, the chances are good that you're going to use Exchange, so PST import isn't so necessary, and at home most people use Outlook Express, and Entourage will import from that. I used Outlook2Mac to overcome that. It's a great little app, and only $14. The main reason I decided to use it over manual import was it can also strip all attachments from e-mails and store them in a separate folder. That took my 400M PST file down to 50M of mail to import to Entourage.

 

hmm...

typo maybe?

looks good, thanks for the review.. this site rocks

 

Awesome, thank you §