Re: Office 2004 Mainstream Support Has Been Extended two years!
- From: "Phillip Jones, C.E.T." <pjones1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:28:06 -0400
Here is an Updated Link. evidently its in X.5 as well but Apple ignored it saying they never heard of such a thing.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=5006&tag=nl.e550
Phillip Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
Reports on ZDNet and cNET and Computerworld Indicates it more than just rare. And a whole lot on Versiontracker.
Don't be embarrassed I screw up all the time ;-)
John McGhie wrote:{Blush} Phillip is right, I was wrong! (Not for the first time...)
Apple has now acknowledged that they have a bug, and are apparently working
on a fix.
Further research indicates that it affects systems where the the Guest
account has been enabled BEFORE upgrade to Snow Leopard. Apple describes it
as "extremely rare", meaning there have been about 100 reports from several
million upgrades.
CNET has a good article on how to recover here:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10356505-263.html?tag=mncol;txt
Sorry about that, Phillip: I should have done a bit more research :-)
Cheers
On 14/10/09 6:45 PM, in article C6FBCCAD.2F26%john@xxxxxxxxxxx, "John
McGhie" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Phillip:
A coupla points: Yes, Office 2010 will be Intel-only. But I very much
doubt whether many PPC computers still out there would have enough power or
memory to run it well, so that's kinda a moot point.
I suspect that whoever you are reading has completely misunderstood the
concept of a "Guest" account (or they have not even read the Help).
Here it is, from the OS 10.6 Help:
" Creating a guest user account
If you want others to be able to temporarily use your computer, but you
don¹t want to create an account for each user, you can create a guest
account.
A guest user can log in to the computer without entering a password. Guest
users can¹t make changes to other user accounts or change setting on the
computer, and they can¹t log in remotely.
You can use parental controls to manage a guest account. For example, you
can limit the applications a guest user has access to, or filter Internet
content.
IMPORTANT: Files created by guest users are deleted when the user logs out.
A temporary home folder is created for the guest¹s files but this folder and
its contents are deleted when the user logs out."
So there you are: the files created BY THE GUEST are deleted when the guest
logs out, which is exactly what you would expect, and want, to happen with a
guest account. That's what they are for :-)
None of the "real" files and settings on the "real" accounts are touched.
Trust me, it is not possible to log in to a Guest account "by mistake". It
cannot happen :-) If you click the name on the screen that says "Guest",
you will go into a Guest account. Most computers will not have Guest
accounts enabled, so you will not even be offered the choice. The
Administrator of the computer must specifically add and enable the Guest
account function, or the choice will not appear. If you are offered the
choice, there is no way you could confuse it with your OWN account.
The great thing about the Internet is that any fool can use it. The great
problem with the Internet is that every fool DOES :-)
Hope this helps
On 14/10/09 12:57 AM, in article #sXMh0ATKHA.764@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Phillip Jones, C.E.T." <pjones1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting. Glad they've decided to support through Jan 2012.This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
But sadly I t means that 2010 is Intel Only and and my take on the memo
is that 2010 will be ready to ship by Jan 2010 and I will be stuck. Also
I am uneasy about the prospect of going to X.6 they've discovered that
if you accidentally sign in on a Guest account and the try to go back to
administrator or named account. everything will be reset and your
pictures, documents a in document folder preference and the like will
be wiped clean. So until that bug it resolved I don't want to go to X.6.
Diane Ross wrote:Details on the MacBU blog: http://www.officeformac.com/blog/
matters unless you intend to pay!
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