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Re: I am still using Office X - mikebw - 11-28-2007
98' eh? pretty nice!
That reminds me- I got Office 98' packaged with my Beige G3 desktop (266MHz, 32MB, 4GB, CD) as a EOL clearance deal, I think it was around $1200 for the whole thing.
Re: I am still using Office X - N-OS X-tasy! - 11-28-2007
[quote datbeme][quote N-OS X-tasy!]Still using Office v.X here, too, but that may change soon -- I got in on that great BF deal for Office 2004 (only to get the cheap upgrade to Office 2008, though).
Ditto. And even though it was projected to ship after Christmas (which would have been too late for the $100 rebate), it shipped today!
Received mine yesterday. I was pretty damn shocked, given that I'd opted for free shipping.
Re: I am still using Office X - davester - 11-28-2007
I'm another V.xer. I'm not even sure why I upgraded that far, since it didn't really have any improvements over 98. I also jumped on the cheapo 2004/2008 deal, but only because the revisions mode in word is slightly more convenient. How can it be that M$ has 10 years to improve on a totally buggy product (MS Word), but they are still producing the same innovationless product, with the same damn bugs they had a decade ago. Ridiculous.
Re: I am still using Office X - tahoedrew - 11-28-2007
Add me to the list of current Office v.X users. I got in on the BF deal for the Exchange support. While Micro$oft claims Entourage v.X has Exchange server support, we could not get it to work with our Exchange server. Entourage 2004 had Exchange support built-in from the beginning and our exchange server host guarantees they can make it work with Entourage 2004, so I'll finally be able to sync my iPhone with my Mac rather than the PC laptop so I can have my contacts and work calendar.
~A
Re: I am still using Office X - ADent - 11-28-2007
I had v.X - the 31 character file name thing bugged me. Bought 2004 thru MS HUP (Home Use Program) for $21.
Re: I am still using Office X - Fritz - 11-28-2007
Office 2001 here. Dunno if that is before or after X.
But it ain't broke
Re: I am still using Office X - RAMd®d - 11-28-2007
v.X is where I came in on Office, still there.
I thought about the BF deal and passed. *Maybe* if another opportunity comes up, but I only have one Intel Mac at the moment and it's not tasked for any related duties.
v.X is plenty stable for me, never had any problems.
And I still use AW most of the time anyway.
Re: I am still using Office X - Yoyodyne ArtWorks - 11-28-2007
Another reason to stick with Office X, Word X gives you the option to enable or disable Quartz text smoothing. This is a big deal if you typically work at higher zoom/screen magnifications and don't want the blurry effect that text smoothing gives in such circumstances.
I usually work at 200% zoom in Word on a 20 inch widescreen monitor, and with smoothing turned off in Word X the 12 pt text is razor sharp. Word 2004 doesn't offer the no-smoothing option, instead using the global text smoothing setting configured in the Mac OSX Appearance control panel. And if you "turn off font smoothing for text sizes 12 pts and smaller" a lot of your smaller (e.g., web browser) text will look like crap.
I installed Office 2004 this morning, discovered this font smoothing limitation (not to mention the idiotic "corrupt font" problem that afflicts Word 2004) and immediately uninstalled Office 2004.
I'll use Office 2004 on one of my laptops for occasional use, plus I'm getting the $100 rebate and a free copy of Office 2008 for my Intel iMac, so overall I'm not too put out. But after all these years working on Office for the Mac and they still can't get it right... If I didn't have to use Word for my business I'd switch to Mariner Write in a heartbeat.
Re: I am still using Office X - IronMac - 11-28-2007
Still using v.X and will probably upgrade to 2008. No real reason but maybe it will be snappier?
Re: I am still using Office X - Sam3 - 11-28-2007
I'm still using Offive v.X on my Sawtooth, but 2004 on my MBP. The biggest limitation of Office X for me is the lack of unicode support, I frequently need to write in a different language, one that has diacritical marks.