Lest there be any confusion, Office:mac tends to be much more compatible with earlier versions of Office irrespective of platform. Office 2004, the Mac version of Office that preceded the abomination that is Office 2008, was the most compatible version of Office on any platform--ever. Lack of VBA support and other deficiencies notwithstanding, Office 2008 has some compatibility advantages over Office 2007.
Takeaway message: Microsoft actually does an awful job with legacy compatibility. However, its Mac products are superior to its Windows products in this regard.
My experience has been exactly the opposite. Mac 2004 was completely unusable for someone like me with a lot of postscript fonts. It would not even start up if there was the slightest font conflict. Even on a good day it took forever to start up. On Windows I have never had a file that misbehaved other than the fact that Windows just sucks as does Word in every imaginable way. Avoid like plague. If your clients need you to be Office compatible it pays to have a Windows box available.
A definite buy for me. Can't wait until it comes out. Sure I could do a lot of this stuff with Google Docs already, but having this be built into office will make my life a lot easier. Hopefully sky drive won't be a requirement to co-author.
I've been waiting for Office 2011 for a while. The speed of office 2010 makes me envious, especially when I compare it to office 2008. For office '08 I find powerpoint mostly tolerable, and I put the blame on word and excel. For some reason word takes the longest to open out of the three and its overall performance is lacking. I don't use entourage so no thoughts on that.
My experience has been exactly the opposite. Mac 2004 was completely unusable for someone like me with a lot of postscript fonts. It would not even start up if there was the slightest font conflict. Even on a good day it took forever to start up. On Windows I have never had a file that misbehaved other than the fact that Windows just sucks as does Word in every imaginable way. Avoid like plague. If your clients need you to be Office compatible it pays to have a Windows box available.
Whether you expect them or not, corrupt fonts will cause problems if you insist on using them. As for having a Windows box for your Windows-using clients, I certainly can't argue against that. However, my experience is that opening files in one version of Office:win will create formatting issues for those created by a different version of Office:win. How many different PCs do you want to keep?
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Lest there be any confusion, Office:mac tends to be much more compatible with earlier versions of Office irrespective of platform. Office 2004, the Mac version of Office that preceded the abomination that is Office 2008, was the most compatible version of Office on any platform--ever. Lack of VBA support and other deficiencies notwithstanding, Office 2008 has some compatibility advantages over Office 2007.
Takeaway message: Microsoft actually does an awful job with legacy compatibility. However, its Mac products are superior to its Windows products in this regard.
My experience has been exactly the opposite. Mac 2004 was completely unusable for someone like me with a lot of postscript fonts. It would not even start up if there was the slightest font conflict. Even on a good day it took forever to start up. On Windows I have never had a file that misbehaved other than the fact that Windows just sucks as does Word in every imaginable way. Avoid like plague. If your clients need you to be Office compatible it pays to have a Windows box available.
you come out with a 12 core beast, at least have some software that can use 4 of them properly.
Amen on that point
My experience has been exactly the opposite. Mac 2004 was completely unusable for someone like me with a lot of postscript fonts. It would not even start up if there was the slightest font conflict. Even on a good day it took forever to start up. On Windows I have never had a file that misbehaved other than the fact that Windows just sucks as does Word in every imaginable way. Avoid like plague. If your clients need you to be Office compatible it pays to have a Windows box available.
Whether you expect them or not, corrupt fonts will cause problems if you insist on using them. As for having a Windows box for your Windows-using clients, I certainly can't argue against that. However, my experience is that opening files in one version of Office:win will create formatting issues for those created by a different version of Office:win. How many different PCs do you want to keep?
If you come out with a 12 core beast, at least have some software that can use 4 of them properly.
Apple relies on Adobe for that stuff.