Island Roots Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 What is this? I'm not sure if that's how it's spelled in the title...but I've seen something similar to this; I'm wondering what it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giantsnyy2002 Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Its office for mac osX... some improvements over office 2001:mac, mainly OSX support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted November 19, 2002 Veteran Share Posted November 19, 2002 Imagine everything that office 2000 does. Now imaging that running on OSX with extra stuff to make it even cooler.. You'll get the picture :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Imagine everything that office 2000 does. Now imaging that running on OSX with extra stuff to make it even cooler.. You'll get the picture :) hehe, I'll give that a big "Hell Yea!" :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Island Roots Posted November 19, 2002 Author Share Posted November 19, 2002 So you can play Windows games through it or what? Lol stupid question, but I need to learn this stuff if I'm gonna be getting a Mac :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 So you can play Windows games through it or what?Lol stupid question, but I need to learn this stuff if I'm gonna be getting a Mac :blink: nope, u cant run windows games on a mac, even if u use virtual pc (and install windows on it) it would be like 1 fps or so, but if u have games (such as the original sim city or any game that arent 3D/high res) then it may run ok on VPC but if u want to play the popular games of today, your out of luck :(, unless u use your pc for those games lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Office V.x is just Microsoft Office for windows, only it runs on Mac OS X, and many at M$ will tell you that V.x is better than any Office for windows. Kinda kooky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessterw Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Office for Mac is quite different from the Windows version in a variety of ways. It's not as complicated in many ways, which is a good thing. I'd have to say I prefer it to any of the versions available for Windows, however I don't have a Mac (haven't for years now) so I only get to use it at a friend's house :( It's kinda like how Internet Explorer 5.5 for Mac was better than for Windows (in sooo many ways, the main being standards compliance)... guess that's not so true anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominell Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Office for Mac is quite different from the Windows version in a variety of ways. It's not as complicated in many ways, which is a good thing. I'd have to say I prefer it to any of the versions available for Windows, however I don't have a Mac (haven't for years now) so I only get to use it at a friend's house :(It's kinda like how Internet Explorer 5.5 for Mac was better than for Windows (in sooo many ways, the main being standards compliance)... guess that's not so true anymore. Well, actually the latest IE for Mac is 5.2 - and it blows bigtime ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Office for Mac is quite different from the Windows version in a variety of ways. It's not as complicated in many ways, which is a good thing. I'd have to say I prefer it to any of the versions available for Windows, however I don't have a Mac (haven't for years now) so I only get to use it at a friend's house :(It's kinda like how Internet Explorer 5.5 for Mac was better than for Windows (in sooo many ways, the main being standards compliance)... guess that's not so true anymore. Well, actually the latest IE for Mac is 5.2 - and it blows bigtime ;) lol... one of my friends was telling me (this was back in the summer) that there was a leaked version of ie 5.5 beta for mac on the web...but i havent heard any stuff bout it since back then...i dont really like ie 5.1/5.2, a lil slow for me (on high speed net), so i use either mozilla or netscape 7.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Office for Mac is quite different from the Windows version in a variety of ways. It's not as complicated in many ways, which is a good thing. I'd have to say I prefer it to any of the versions available for Windows, however I don't have a Mac (haven't for years now) so I only get to use it at a friend's house :(It's kinda like how Internet Explorer 5.5 for Mac was better than for Windows (in sooo many ways, the main being standards compliance)... guess that's not so true anymore. Well, actually the latest IE for Mac is 5.2 - and it blows bigtime ;) Yes it does....BIGTIME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGMW Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 From what I have heard, Office v.X is just Office 9 ported to OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Island Roots Posted November 20, 2002 Author Share Posted November 20, 2002 Is it just me or does browsing the Internet through IE seem really slow...cumbersome? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted November 20, 2002 Veteran Share Posted November 20, 2002 From what I have heard, Office v.X is just Office 9 ported to OSX. nope, if you look at the featureset, it's like office 10.5 (office 10 plus extras and some polish) And, IE is slow. Get chimera, it's faster, renders pages better, and does tabbed browsing (the best thing in the world :) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessterw Posted November 20, 2002 Share Posted November 20, 2002 (edited) Well, actually the latest IE for Mac is 5.2 - and it blows bigtime ;) Sorry, had the versions wrong. However at the time (maybe it was just plain ol' 5) it was the most standards compliant browser around. I didn't have a Mac around this time so I don't know anything about it beyond that. Edit: On the topic of Office, it might be worth a mention that the newest Mac version was almost a complete rewrite of the suite, so it's not really even the same thing as Office for Windows. From what I've seen, on those few occassions I can actually use a Mac with Office, it definately is more polished than Office XP. I really like Enterouge... it just seems to fit the way I work better than Outlook (which I admittedly like more than most). Edited November 20, 2002 by jesterzwild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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