Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Sep 2006 20:33 UTC
Microsoft's next-gen Office suite for the Mac is being given a top-to-toe refit in readiness for its debut in the third quarter of 2007. On the surface is a revised interface which borrows ideas from the Office 2007 for Windows 'ribbon' and has already been radically changed due to user feedback. The new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint will all adopt the native XML file formats of their Windows siblings. And, the program is of course being rebuilt as an Intel-friendly Universal Binary application.
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2005-11-06
I'm still using the very first Office for Max OS X: Office X, circa 2001.
On my MacBook. Under Rosetta emulation (it's PowerPC code). Runs fine, just takes a couple extra seconds to open, that's all. Never had a single crash, and I haven't seen any compelling reasons to upgrade to Office:Mac 2004. The new XML format may force me though, unless OO.org finally releases a fast/non-memory-hog/non-X11 Mac version.
Yes, the old Office under Rosetta is faster than OpenOffice2 *and* uses less memory.