Snow Leopard and Office compatibility

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Kerry

Microsoft has no information on whether Mac Office 08 is Snow Leopard
compatible as they have no information on it. The rep just said assume
it is as she thought they would have heard if there is any anticipated
problems. On the other hand, she hadn't even heard of Snow Leopard.
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me - in the worst of ways.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Kerry said:
Microsoft has no information on whether Mac Office 08 is Snow Leopard
compatible as they have no information on it. The rep just said assume
it is as she thought they would have heard if there is any anticipated
problems. On the other hand, she hadn't even heard of Snow Leopard.
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me - in the worst of ways.
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No company wants to comment on a software that's not yet finalized and
publicly available.
I have no doubt they have been "playing" with it as much as they can,
but I don't expect any public announcement.

Corentin
 
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Diane Ross

On the other hand, she hadn't even heard of Snow Leopard.
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me - in the worst of ways.
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You were probably taking to someone that only knows the dark side. :)

Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Available Friday.

I plan on installing as soon as I receive my copy.
 
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Kerry

You were probably taking to someone that only knows the dark side. :)

Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Available Friday.

I plan on installing as soon as I receive my copy.
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I'm with you Diane. I want to install it right away also. I only won't
if its installer identifies any software I have of major significance
as being a problem.

Corentin, I understand what you're saying but I've now got feedback
from 5 other vendors, 4 of which have identified that their software
is fully Snow Leopard compatible. The 5th vendor has a beta on the
site we can work with but he suggested holding off as he knows how
extensively I use their software and there are issues in their beta.
Probably nothing though that's a real show stopper for me when I look
over the issues list.

I even found out from Canon that my scanner is already Snow leopard
compatible so I really feel that Microsoft is so far a bit unique here
- as they always have been unique in that they provide next to no
information where it comes to the Mac. Why is it that I know exactly
what I have to do to upgrade my XP Pro to Windows 7 - that is a clean
install etc and I don't know if Entourage is Snow Leopard compatible.
Honestly, I can see why so many people using a Mac with Microsoft's
software are so frustrated.
 
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Diane Ross

Corentin, I understand what you're saying but I've now got feedback
from 5 other vendors, 4 of which have identified that their software
is fully Snow Leopard compatible.
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MacBU will be making an announcement shortly. If you are on Leopard now, you
shouldn't have any problems. Snow Leopard does not install Rosetta by
default so users that are doing big upgrades may have some issues.

Wait for the official announcement. My info is sketchy at this time and I
don't want to put out the wrong info.

Hope this helps!
 
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Kerry

Diane said:
MacBU will be making an announcement shortly. If you are on Leopard now, you
shouldn't have any problems. Snow Leopard does not install Rosetta by
default so users that are doing big upgrades may have some issues.

Wait for the official announcement. My info is sketchy at this time and I
don't want to put out the wrong info.

Hope this helps!
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Good stuff Diane. Sketchy is better than the Microsoft Mac tech
support rep saying I haven't even heard of Snow Leopard (OMG, Bill
Gates please come back).
 
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Kerry

Diane said:
MacBU will be making an announcement shortly. If you are on Leopard now, you
shouldn't have any problems. Snow Leopard does not install Rosetta by
default so users that are doing big upgrades may have some issues.

Wait for the official announcement. My info is sketchy at this time and I
don't want to put out the wrong info.

Hope this helps!
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I can't comment on Entourage/Snow Leopard compatibility yet due to the
above but I am now finding that a couple of my critical apps will have
problems under Snow Leopard. One is not compatible but there is a beta
with issues that would allow me to progress with the upgrade. The
other piece of software is my Missing Sync software for both the Palm
and the BlackBerry. They both have issues but in terms of the issues
list I can probably live with this.

I think I will proceed with great caution as I have a number of
utilities that I haven't determined their compatibility but since
these utilities are often linked substantially to the OS I am guessing
there will be problems based on my current list.

One thing of interest is that Apple's move from Sept to Aug 28 caught
one vendor off guard and that's part of the reason they aren't ready
to go. So caution might be advisable here. I would say make a clone of
your current configuration using SuperDuper or something else so that
if there is a real mess you can revert back. I would not delete this
clone or let SuperDuper if its set for auto backups clone the upgraded
system over the older until you know for sure you're running alright.
I had a bad experience going from Tiger to Leopard and forgot to
disable SuperDuper cloning so I had no way of getting bac
 
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Thomas H. Hart III

I can't comment on Entourage/Snow Leopard compatibility yet due to the
above but I am now finding that a couple of my critical apps will have
problems under Snow Leopard. One is not compatible but there is a beta
with issues that would allow me to progress with the upgrade. The
other piece of software is my Missing Sync software for both the Palm
and the BlackBerry. They both have issues but in terms of the issues
list I can probably live with this.

I think I will proceed with great caution as I have a number of
utilities that I haven't determined their compatibility but since
these utilities are often linked substantially to the OS I am guessing
there will be problems based on my current list.
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I understand that Snow Leopard will have an optional Rosetta install so
older applications may still work. Rosetta, which is necessary to run PPC
applications, is not a default install in Snow Leopard as it is in Leopard
and Tiger.
 
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Diane Ross

So caution might be advisable here. I would say make a clone of
your current configuration using SuperDuper or something else so that
if there is a real mess you can revert back.
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I made two clones just in case. Part of this was I had a drive used on an
older computer that needed upgrading to my most current docs too.

Has some interesting facts about installing on MacFixIt.

<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090813160052571>

I guess what's confusing me a bit, is I normally wipe a drive when I go to a
new version them migrate over my docs. Now I'll be applying it over my
current install and this seems contrary to me.

Anyone that is having the webcore and javascript errors might end up having
to install Leopard then update to Snow Leopard if the simple update to Snow
Leopard doesn't fix their issues.
 
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Kerry

Diane said:
I made two clones just in case. Part of this was I had a drive used on an
older computer that needed upgrading to my most current docs too.

Has some interesting facts about installing on MacFixIt.

<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090813160052571>

I guess what's confusing me a bit, is I normally wipe a drive when I go to a
new version them migrate over my docs. Now I'll be applying it over my
current install and this seems contrary to me.

Anyone that is having the webcore and javascript errors might end up having
to install Leopard then update to Snow Leopard if the simple update to Snow
Leopard doesn't fix their issues.
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Just in case people missed this at Macfixit they announced today that
their articles will now be free for access due to their acquisition by
CNET. This is good news as they have a lot of good articles that
required a subscription to view.
 
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Diane Ross

I guess what's confusing me a bit, is I normally wipe a drive when I go to a
new version them migrate over my docs. Now I'll be applying it over my
current install and this seems contrary to me.
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Just found out you will be able to install Snow Leopard from scratch on a
bare hard disk with the "upgrade" disc you get. Somehow the disk verifies
that you have Leopard and allows you to clean install.
 
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