Re: Upgrade Office 2004
- From: Doug Bloomfield <dmbloomfield@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:01:28 -0500
Reply from Doug:
Thank you very much. This was very helpful. I do have Office X and OS X
10.4.4; I've experienced some problems with Word locking up or crashing.
Also I don't like the paste (cmd-V) command when copying and pasting from
Safari. I prefer the old system that apparently pasted as formatted text,
which I now have to do in two mouse steps rather than a single keyboard
command. Cmd-V gives me a copy block that often just starts the cursor
wheel spinning endlessly until I have to do a force quit.
I was really wondering, I guess, whether 2004 might work more smoothly with
10.4.4 than Office X.
And, as you noted, I didn't want to bother upgrading to Office 2004 if it
was about to be replaced with Office 2006.
Again, thanks for the good info and advice.
> On 1/28/06 6:58 AM, "Doug Bloomfield" wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if and when MS intends to offer an upgrade successor to
>> Office 2004, or is it likely to be around a while longer?
>>
>
> Well, anybody who really knows details can't tell you, but--there *will* be
> another version of Office, and it will probably be a while, because:
>
> Public knowledge:
>
> A free update with Entourage features (Spotlight, Sync) is due out in March.
>
> MS has said they are working on a next version (Office 12). It's going to
> be a universal binary for both the Intel and PowerPC Macs, so that's not a
> quick operation, although it is apparently "on track" at present.
>
> The next version will incorporate some features from the next version of
> WinOffice 12, so it's definitely going to ship *after* WinOffice 12.
> WinOffice 12 is in early beta right now, and rumors say might ship in the
> summer, MS has said it will be out sometime in 2006.
>
> Historically, MacOffice has come out several months to a year after
> WinOffice--e.g., there was Office 9: WinWord 2000/MacWord 2001; Office 11:
> WinWord 2003/MacWord 2004.
>
> References:
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/jan06/01-10MacWorld.mspx
> http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2005/06/01/424086.aspx
> http://www.microsoft.com/mac/howtobuy.aspx?pid=upgrade
>
>
> My opinions:
>
> WinOffice 12 is a huge undertaking with big changes to the UI and the file
> format, so my personal guess based on complete ignorance of everything is
> that it will be out later in 2006 rather than earlier, just cause I figure
> it'll take longer than they expected.
>
> I assume you are trying to decide whether to buy Office 2004--kinda depends
> on your situation. If you are happy with Office X, why change things?
> Though it is true that Office X seems to be basically just Office 2001
> ported to OS X, while Office 2004 actually has some new features. But that
> depends on whether you are the type of computer user who would make use of
> the new features.
>
> If you are worried Office 2004 will vanish before you have a chance to buy
> it--no, not until something else replaces it.
>
> If you are using Office in Classic, I'd go for Office 2004. Right now the
> upgrade eligibility for Office 2004 goes back all the way to Office 98, but
> there is no guarantee that will persist.
>
> With Office 2004, my opinion is that you'd be in good shape to sit back and
> see if the next version (Office 12) might be skippable for you. There ought
> definitely to be an Office 13 version, because MS also just publicly
> committed to working with Apple for 5 more years.
>
> Hope that helps--
>
> DM
>
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