Microsoft updates Office and Messenger, delays next version of Office

Microsoft has posted an update for Office 2004 and Messenger, bringing them respectively to versions 11.3.0 and 6.0.1.

Office update mainly fixes security issues while Messenger fixes authentication bugs.

Microsoft has also updated Office X to version 10.1.8 so as to fix these same security issues. All these updates can be obtained either through the Microsoft AutoUpdate utility or through Microsoft's web site.

At the same time, Microsoft has announced it would delay the Mac version of Office 2007 to the second half of next year. The company was expected to release Office 2007 for Mac in the first quarter of 2007.

This is not very bad news though, as Office 2004 runs perfectly on Intel Macs, using the Rosetta's transparent PowerPC emulation.


Office 2004 should indeed do

Office 2004 should indeed do the job for me.

Shouldn't it be called

Shouldn't it be called Office 2008 then?

The "home movie" ad is sure

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Oops! I meant "PC" as in

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I suggest people who would

I suggest people who would like an intel-native office suite take a look at NeoOffice, which is an Aqua port of OpenOffice (no X11 required). It performs very well, behaves excellently in a heterogenous environment (Macs and PCs, OpenOffice, NeoOffice and MS Office), and looks and feels like a real MacOS application.

/Eirik

Isn't NeoOffice basically a

Isn't NeoOffice basically a Java app? Why are you talking about "Intel-native"?


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