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Skpinny
Doing some research on getting Project - but it looks like it is not
available for Mac?
Am I right?
available for Mac?
Am I right?
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JackD
No. There is an older version which is available for the Mac. It dates back
a couple of generations though.
I think you are better off running the windows version under emulation.
a couple of generations though.
I think you are better off running the windows version under emulation.
J
John
Skpinny said:Doing some research on getting Project - but it looks like it is not
available for Mac?
Am I right?
Skpinny,
Yes and no. The last version of Project released for Mac was 4.0 which
is about 4 versions and several years old. Depending on your needs, it
is still a very functional version and will run under OS 9.2.2 classic
mode with OS X. The main problem is it doesn't have all the latest
wiz-bang features and it isn't compatible with other users who are using
later versions of Project on an Intel based PC.
If you want to be current, you will need to use Virtual PC for Mac. I
currently use VPC 7, (although VPC 5 works fine also), and I support
Project 98 through 2003 as an MVP on this newsgroup.
Hope this helps.
John
The only Mac based Project MVP
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Steve House [Project MVP]
Time sure flies when you're having fun. If MSP 4.0 for the Mac was
contemporaneous with MSP 4.0 for the PC (I forget if it was since I'm not as
Mac'er) that "several years old" is actually well over a decade now,
positively Paleozoic as far as technologic evolution is concerned.
I'm reminded of a boss I once had who started off meetings with new vendors
with "I think in terms of two business horizons, short term and long term.
Short term is right now. Long term is next week -- but no later than
Monday!" <grin>
contemporaneous with MSP 4.0 for the PC (I forget if it was since I'm not as
Mac'er) that "several years old" is actually well over a decade now,
positively Paleozoic as far as technologic evolution is concerned.
I'm reminded of a boss I once had who started off meetings with new vendors
with "I think in terms of two business horizons, short term and long term.
Short term is right now. Long term is next week -- but no later than
Monday!" <grin>
J
John
Time sure flies when you're having fun. If MSP 4.0 for the Mac was
contemporaneous with MSP 4.0 for the PC (I forget if it was since I'm not as
Mac'er) that "several years old" is actually well over a decade now,
positively Paleozoic as far as technologic evolution is concerned.
I'm reminded of a boss I once had who started off meetings with new vendors
with "I think in terms of two business horizons, short term and long term.
Short term is right now. Long term is next week -- but no later than
Monday!" <grin>
Steve,
Actually Project 4.0 for Mac was equivalent to Project 4.1 (Project 97)
for PC so it's not quite a decade. "Several years" is still accurate.
I am reminded of what Captain Adama on Si Fi's Battlestar Galactica told
the reports when they asked why his Battlestar did not get obliterated
by the Cylons when all the other Battlestars did. He said that when the
decree from headquarters came down to link all computers on the ship, he
refused. Sometimes technologic evolution can blow up in your face.
I could say more about the functionality of older versions, but It's
just not worth the effort to spin up a whole lotta people.
John
J
JackD
We are about 5 years after the release of Project 2000. On the desktop not
much has changed.
I could go back to Proj2000 without missing much at all.
That said, no one wants to go back to Project Central.
much has changed.
I could go back to Proj2000 without missing much at all.
That said, no one wants to go back to Project Central.
S
Steve House [Project MVP]
Project 2000 I could go back to easy enough. But Project 98 or earlier,
forgeddaboutit! The introduction of material resources and the creation of
a deadline field to use in lieu of MFNL constraints were sufficient
justification all by themselves for the upgrade from 98 to 2k.
I've never met anyone who was able to actually get Project Central working
well enough and stable enough to use it for practical work. Anything that's
free is usually worth exactly what you pay for it. Once PC evolved to the
point it could actually be used, it became Project Server and was no longer
a freeby.
For John, as I recall Project 97 came out toward the middle of 1996. MS
would name their products with the year AFTER the actual year of release,
like Windows 95 came out in the early fall of 1994, so they would seem all
new and shiney and cutting edge all the more longer. We're half-way through
2005 now. That makes it 9+ years since '97's release, close enough to a
decade as not to matter.
Remember when "computer music" meant putting a cheap transistor radio on top
of your PC tuned between stations so it gave off tones generated by its
local oscillator beating with rf leaking from the motherboard and drive
cables?
forgeddaboutit! The introduction of material resources and the creation of
a deadline field to use in lieu of MFNL constraints were sufficient
justification all by themselves for the upgrade from 98 to 2k.
I've never met anyone who was able to actually get Project Central working
well enough and stable enough to use it for practical work. Anything that's
free is usually worth exactly what you pay for it. Once PC evolved to the
point it could actually be used, it became Project Server and was no longer
a freeby.
For John, as I recall Project 97 came out toward the middle of 1996. MS
would name their products with the year AFTER the actual year of release,
like Windows 95 came out in the early fall of 1994, so they would seem all
new and shiney and cutting edge all the more longer. We're half-way through
2005 now. That makes it 9+ years since '97's release, close enough to a
decade as not to matter.
Remember when "computer music" meant putting a cheap transistor radio on top
of your PC tuned between stations so it gave off tones generated by its
local oscillator beating with rf leaking from the motherboard and drive
cables?
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