Time for Office v.X update?
Hey, it's been what, 5 months since Office v.X came out? Isn't it about time for a service pack? we've got a host of pesky bugs and performance issues to be addressed. Not looking for perfection, but carbonised apps seem to have an obligatory .1 or .0.1 release that focuses on performance. Time for one for Office! Do you think we're waiting on final Palm software so they can roll a conduit into it?
And hey, where is AW 7? Seems like that is now "overdue" as well.....
And hey, where is AW 7? Seems like that is now "overdue" as well.....
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As for the Office X update, I have to agree. There are some really basic bug fixes that are needed (screen refresh bugs, window position memory and things of that nature). I don't recall how long it was before MS released SR1 for Office 2001. Thinking it was close to a year?
[ 03-21-2002: Message edited by: Moogs ? ]</p>
I would be very surprised if Adobe updates Illustrator again. Adobe seems much more interested in charging for paid upgrades than fixing bugs these days. I'm not even sure what 10.0.1 fixes--still slow as sh*t and the redraw bug i still there. Poster child for lack of Adobe bug fixes: GoLive 5.
I don't deny it's unlikely there will be any feature changes or additions, but I do think they'll do a better job of bug fixing and small speedups this time around when it comes to their dot releases.
I expect the same treatment regarding Office:Mac.
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I do not expect Palm conduits to come out before they release conduits for Pocket Windows.
We have multiple TiBooks running on a network with an OSX server. People log in remotely using NetInfo. Office X is installed locally on each TiBook. I have witnessed at least 8 kernel panics when people are running an Office suite app or just after they quit one. People tell me this is a very bad thing, but I have seen no other reference to it elsewhere. Perhaps it is related to the remote log-in? Before installing Office X we had not kernel panics, and as long as people don't run Office, there are no kernel panics.
However, without these, the application suite, especially Entourage, is much less than it could be. I'm surprised some third party hasn't added this capability, if MS won't.
[ 03-30-2002: Message edited by: Don Levy, the Mac Therapist, L.A. ]</p>
I don't know if it was hyperbole, but to make the claim of "1000 changes, etc." makes me think two things:
1. This update will come after 10.2 is released (to make sure it works well with the final release of said system)
2. Can you guys think of 1000 features that need tweaking? Wonder if it will be downloadable....
Well, there are over 1000 sucky looking icons in v.X. One speed fix would be perfectly fine with me.
It's a good bet several of those "1000 changes" are little things like sharper looking icons and buttons, as well as some new gizmos. As for speed, Office X is about the only OS X "app" I own that moves as fast as I'd hoped. All of my office apps launch in 3-5 seconds and I don't have any problems navigating the file system, saving files, etc. Not as far as speed goes anyway.
Hell, I wish Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2 ran as fast as MS Word and MS Powerpoint!