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About Microsoft Office v.X for Mac Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Microsoft Office- Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac. The new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote provide the best of both worlds for Mac users – the familiar Office experience paired with the best of Mac.
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The Good Uses Aqua features and adheres to Mac OS X standards; lets you customize key commands in Excel and select multiple, discontinuous text blocks in Word; Entourage interface is easier to navigate. The Bad Expensive upgrade; applies antialiasing sporadically, causing some ragged text; doesn't sync directly with Palm OS devices; Word and Excel don't read Microsoft Access files. The Bottom Line If you've been waiting for a good reason to purchase Mac OS X, Office X is it.
But if you're happy with both Office 2001 and OS 9, you won't find enough improvements to justify the $299 upgrade price. Visit for details. On June 3, Microsoft released an Office X update called Office X Service Release 1. We have updated this review to reflect changes made in the. No application is more important to the fate of Mac OS X than Microsoft Office. It doesn't matter how great an operating system is, it isn't useful to most people unless it can run mainstream business software. Java jdk 1.6 download for mac os x. And whether you like it or not, Microsoft Office is about as mainstream as it gets.
Fortunately for Apple, Office X ships with a well-conceived and well-implemented collection of Mac OS X applications that make the most of OS X's new Aqua interface and features. The Office X apps are fully Carbonized (that is, they've been ported to OS X from an older version of the Mac OS), but unlike most Carbon apps, they don't run in Mac OS 9. But if you've been waiting for top-notch, Mac-specific business programs before switching to OS X, Office X is for you. Be sure to the free Service Release 1, however, for snappier performance and bug fixes. Microsoft will not ship this update on Office X CDs.(Updated 6/11/02) Editors' note. On June 3, Microsoft released an Office X update called Office X Service Release 1. We have updated this review to reflect changes made in the.
No application is more important to the fate of Mac OS X than Microsoft Office. It doesn't matter how great an operating system is, it isn't useful to most people unless it can run mainstream business software.
And whether you like it or not, Microsoft Office is about as mainstream as it gets. Fortunately for Apple, Office X ships with a well-conceived and well-implemented collection of Mac OS X applications that make the most of OS X's new Aqua interface and features. The Office X apps are fully Carbonized (that is, they've been ported to OS X from an older version of the Mac OS), but unlike most Carbon apps, they don't run in Mac OS 9. But if you've been waiting for top-notch, Mac-specific business programs before switching to OS X, Office X is for you. Be sure to the free Service Release 1, however, for snappier performance and bug fixes. Microsoft will not ship this update on Office X CDs. Aquafied Office does it better In building Office X, Microsoft took care to stick to Apple's OS X user interface guidelines, which often help to make text, buttons, and menus easier to see and navigate.
For instance, Open and Save dialogs look and act like those in OS X. When you click them, they roll down from title bars as sheets (dialog boxes attached to a window). Word's View buttons, which let you switch between Normal, Page Layout, and other views, are colorful and easy to distinguish from the background. In Excel, as soon as you start typing in a cell, it develops a drop shadow to make it stand out from inactive cells. And using OS X's transparency (a feature that lets you adjust the opacity of text and graphics), you can overlap 3D charts and graphics in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. True to form, Microsoft has gone a bit overboard with some new Office X gewgaws.