Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good

[chopper]

For a myriad of reasons I found OS 10. 5 and Office 2008 (especially Entourage) distasteful. I was running out of space on the old drive and purchased a new 500 gig unit. I have now installed my old 10.4 and office 2004. And I will not upgrade again.

[Doc]

Umm. Okay.

Good luck with that.

[Tommie Milwaukee]

Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
I have heard lots of bad things about Office 2008. That's why we still use 2004. Seems to work fine with Leopard, though.

[rgG]

I am still using Office X on a machine running Leopard and one running Tiger. I see no compelling reason to upgrade on either one.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

rgG wrote:
I am still using Office X on a machine running Leopard and one running Tiger. I see no compelling reason to upgrade on either one.

After running both Office X and 2008, the only one I can come up with is 2008's support for file names more than 32 characters long (also available in 2004, IIRC).

[Sam3]

Office 2008 and 2004 handle unicode fonts better than Office X. Major reason for me to go to the newer versions.

[SDGuy]

I used Office 2008 for about a half hour. Couldn't stand it and went back to 2004. I thought new versions of software were supposed to be better than their predecessors?

[Doc]

> I thought new versions of software were supposed to be
> better than their predecessors?

The Formatting palette is a f-ing awesome improvement in Office '08. No more struggling to remember which Toolbar to enable for what feature.

That alone was worth the $9 bucks.

[MysteryGuest]

Microsoft has long since run out of any new ideas. As far as I'm concerned, every upgrade of Office has been more dismal than the last.

Running Office X and Tiger. I'd like to upgrade to Leopard, but that might be a while. Seems Adobe wants full price for Photoshop, since I've got Photoshop 7. I'm a little surprised I missed that warning last year.

[Grumpyguy]

SDGuy wrote:
I used Office 2008 for about a half hour. Couldn't stand it and went back to 2004. I thought new versions of software were supposed to be better than their predecessors?

Guess you don't remember Microsoft Word 5 versus Microsoft Word 6

http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archiv...80193.aspx

People still use Word 5 because it was that good!

Word 6 was a stinky Windows port.