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Microsoft Office 2004

Microsoft Office 2004

Entourage, PowerPoint, Excel, Word suite.

Version:  11.5.6

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Dear Microsoft....

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Contributed by: bjtsf Tuesday, March 11 2008 @ 06:41 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Dear Microsoft,

PLEASE provide Combo updaters every now and then. I get bored running 7 or 8 updaters. I'm from one of those generations who have a low attention span. I forget which one; I wasn't listening.

Is the ointment working? Hope the family is well.

Your friend.....   

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Dear Microsoft.... - Siskel & Ebert

Classic!!!

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Tuesday, March 11 2008 @ 09:39 PM PDT


Dear Microsoft.... - mrcegjr

Two items that others may need to know:

1. VersionTracker indicates that this is not needed for dual processors. "Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2".
I ran it on my iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. There were no problems and the files indicated in Microsoft's included Read Me all indicated v 11.4.1 after the update.

2. The included Microsoft Read Me indicated that running AutoUpdate would indeed update the relevant files. When I originally tried this approach, AutoUpdate erroneously reported that I was running the most current version.

Hope this helps others avoid any confusion.

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Wednesday, March 12 2008 @ 01:46 AM PDT


Dear Microsoft.... - macnerd10

This is a great idea but as far as I know, only Apple does combo updates. Adobe does not and neither do many other apps. We should be blessed that updating on a Mac does not require a restart like under Windows...
Alex

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Wednesday, March 12 2008 @ 11:39 AM PDT


Dear Microsoft.... - bjtsf

@macnerd10: Do you actually know what a Combo updater is?

It is an updater that includes all previous updates, so you only need to run one (or a couple, instead of 7). It has nothing to do with the operating system or restarting.

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Friday, May 09 2008 @ 12:43 AM PDT


Dear Microsoft.... - PKershaw

Hey, don't I know you? weren't you in the top paddock the other week? You're looking good, considering. Glad the lumps have gone. Pete

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Thursday, March 13 2008 @ 02:38 AM PDT