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Microsoft Office 2004 11.5.4 (Mac OS X)

Beware - Avoid this update on PPC with 10.4.11  

Beware -over the past couple of weeks I have updated a couple of older iMac 17 PPC machines and have found that the non-admin user on those cpus can be affected by Word crashing or just the spinning wheel of death - would post more but VT wants copy in 45 seconds Note that Microsoft has done a good job with support up until 11.5.3 & along with Open XML Converter is a reasonable solutions - but Office 2008 is very pricey, and may not make sense especially when NeoOffice and Apple's iWork are very good alternative products. Please note that I have been using Microsoft products since 1989. [alert admin]

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Thursday, May 07 2009 @ 07:37 PM PDT

Microsoft Office 2004 11.5.4 (Mac OS X)

Beware - Avoid this update on PPC with 10.4.11  

Over the past couple of weeks, I have run the Office 11.5.4 update on a few iMac (PPC) running Mac OS X 10.4.11 having problems after updating to Office 11.5.4 -- it turns out that for non-admin users, Word, in particular, becomes subject to crashing or spinning wheel of death until the app is forced quit... so, if you are Admin user,it may not matter but if you have users that are not admins then beware... I have not determined why there is an issue with this update - I do believe that Microsoft has actually done a very good job with support to Mac Office up until Office 2004 rev 11.5.3 and along with Open XML Converter it has address the issues with the new format, introduce with Office 2007 (.docx, pptx, .xlsx). NeoOffice or Apple's iWork are now reasonable alternatives to the pricey MS Office - does Microsoft remember (or not) that they used a similar strategy against WordPerfect and won! market share will continue to erode at these price points. [alert admin]

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Thursday, May 07 2009 @ 07:23 PM PDT

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