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Other users can upgrade for $299, while the full suite costs $499. Users of the most recent Office or other Microsoft 2001 version productivity products, such as Word + Entourage SE, will be able to upgrade for $149. Microsoft estimates that about 500,000 of the 3.5 million Mac Office users run the 2001 version.
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The new version fully supports Mac OS X, including the Aqua user interface. Both products offer the same basic set of applications: Word, the Excel spreadsheet, the PowerPoint presentation program and Entourage-the combination e-mail, scheduling, and task- and contact-management software. X comes a little more than a year after the last major release, Office 2001. "Making the OS feel responsive and bringing more apps to OS X are the two key challenges for Apple right now," he emphasized. "There's so little for X right now, and professionals simply won't make the switch until their apps are ready," he said.īecause of the applications problem, Oesch reverts to Mac OS 9 to edit video or create animations using Macromedia's Flash. Oesch expressed frustration that other major Mac developers appear to be dragging their heels in supporting Mac OS X. "Sure, it's got great features like pre-emptive multi-tasking and protected memory, but it needs applications to take advantage of these new features.Microsoft Office 10 will be one of the most important apps to move onto OS X." "Mac OS X needs native software," said Brad Oesch, a Mac user from Zurich, Ontario. Apple released its next-generation Mac OS in March, although many important applications had not yet been written for the operating system. With other major Mac developers-such as Adobe-lagging behind in getting out OS X products, Microsoft's support could be crucial to driving upgrades of the operating system. No other Mac product released this year is likely to be more important to Apple than Office v. X for Mac-will ship sometime in November and cost as much as $499, although many current users could pay as little as $149. The new product-code-named Office 10 and now officially called Office v.
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Microsoft on Wednesday revealed the name of its forthcoming Office suite for Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system and firmed up the product's pricing and delivery date.
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