M$ Office preview - Page 4

karavite · #25 March 18th, 2004, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by fryke

Well, that's actually a feature instead of just bulk. I like the thought of voice-added office documents. Makes some sense (instead of using those dictating devices etc...).

Fryke, this is driving me crazy, because there was an app you can add voice recordings to - I remember doing it! Wait, it was/maybe still is Tex Edit!!!

gilga000 · #26 March 18th, 2004, 01:59 PM

Those transparent excel graphs are pretty sweet looking though. Are they not?

karavite · #27 March 18th, 2004, 06:13 PM

Man, they "stole" my idea in the Word search option that highlights the tabs with the search terms present! I was thinking of this for web site searches!

**fryke** · #28 March 25th, 2004, 05:27 AM

A first look at the MS Office 2004 :mac Preview version on macnews.net.tc: http://macintosh.fryke.com/cgi-bin/m..._officepreview - not much, but nice.

hulkaros · #29 March 25th, 2004, 06:25 AM

For those NOT with LOADS of money but with Panther installed there is a very serious contender in the Office area PLUS it is free!

Find more here:
http://www.openoffice.org/

There is an older version there which is VERY easy to install... I'm saying this because the newer version isn't THAT easy to install

Enough with M$... There ARE alternatives out there! Support them by start using them and spread the word to your friends, customers, et al.

Also, one other VERY good "Office" is:
http://marinersoftware.com/
although NOT free and not THAT cheap

**fryke** · #30 March 25th, 2004, 06:47 AM

I understand you are totally against MS Office, yet: There are enough threads about OpenOffice. This one's about Office 2004.

Randman · #31 March 25th, 2004, 07:45 AM

I have to wonder if it's a conditional response that if it comes from M$, it's bad; if it's from Apple, it's good. I can see some arguments against Office '04 but from what all what I've seen and read on it, it seems as if there are some decent improvements that are worth considering upgrading for.

**fryke** · #32 March 25th, 2004, 07:53 AM

Yep, I agree. I don't think the use of Microsoft software on the Macintosh platform is 'bad per se'. It's sad that for _really_ using OpenOffice.org, you'd have to switch to Linux or Windows right now, as the Mac port just isn't there yet. This means that, right now, for good interoperability with other Office users (PC or Mac side), you'll have to use Microsoft's Office v. X or later 2004.

I think Microsoft has done but good things for the Macintosh platform since Office 98 (which was one of the first products of the then created MBU at Microsoft). They even brought Office to Mac OS X in a reasonable amount of time (i.e. before Adobe brought Photoshop, long before Quark brought XPress). Of course Apple also helped Microsoft by creating and constantly improving Carbon.

Let's just say that Office is an important piece of software for the Mac platform. Whether you personally like it or even use it doesn't matter here. And seeing MS keeping Office (more or less) up-to-date with the Windows version is something that makes me happy. More happy than, say, seeing Adobe kill Mac versions of software.

Of course, MS is not doing everything they can for Mac users. Or we would already have a VirtualPC that works much like Classic in Mac OS X (i.e. rootless, which was rumoured for VPC 6 at Connectix, iirc).