MS Office X and Virtual PC running on Panther (10.3)

[Larry Buss]

Hi folks

I am anxious to upgrade to OS X 10.3 when it ships later this month.
Has anyone had any experience, good or bad, using Office X and/or
Virtual PC under the pre-release versions of 10.3?

Thanks for the help

Larry Buss
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi Larry,

Everyone who has run any software on pre-released versions of Panther had to
sign agreements with Apple and other vendors. The agreements prohibit
discussion about the products or release of the kind of information you are
asking about.

Those who know for sure can not tell you until the 24th of the month.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

All responses should be made to this newsgroup within the same thread.
Thanks.

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http://www.mvps.org/

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[Sean & Mary McKone]

Here's a new problem after the official release...

There are permission problems with Office Mac X and fast user switching.

I previously did all the necessary things (alias in each user's Documents
folder pointing to a shared folder of Microsoft User Data in the 'Shared'
folder with read/write permissions for all). Also had read/write permissions
for all users applied to the Microsoft Office folder in Applications.

Once a logged-in user accesses any MS Office app (even quits it later but
doesn't log out), the other user will get the standard permissions errors
(Permission failure in Entourage, or access to Framework X error in
Word/Excel, etc.) until the original user is completely logged out of Mac OS
X. This kinda kills the whole point of fast user switching (staying logged
in, leaving apps running, etc.).

The permissions all look good and should be available. I guess that a lock
is put on some common module and never given up until logging out. Any
ideas?

Sean in Chicago