Snow Leopard: will Word 2004 work well?

[andy54321]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

In David Pogue's review of Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, he said, "I experienced frustrating glitches in various programs, including Microsoft Word..."

I assume he's talking about Word 2008. I happen to use Word 2004 – I thought I'd see if anyone knows of glitches with Word 2004 after an upgrade to 10.6.

RE: New York Times: Apple's Sleek Upgrade. 8/26/09
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html?hp>

 

[CyberTaz]

Nobody has [legitimately] upgraded to 10.6 because 10.6 hasn't yet been
released. The only people with any idea are authorized beta testers who are
under strict NDA to not publicly discuss whatever they might know. Anyone
else who comments is unqualified to do so -- they're either basing their
"insights" on a pirated beta version or just plain guessing. Either way it's
an unfounded opinion.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

I suggest that you read Mr. Pogue's article very, very carefully

You need to understand that a graphical user interface application, such as
Word, performs 80 per cent of its activity in the operating system code.
Since almost all of the operating system code has changed in OS 10.6, you
are effectively replacing 80 per cent of Word.

You must expect some stuff to break. The older your copy of Word, the more
likely it is to have something broken: so Word 2004 is less likely to be
problem-free than Word 2008.

If you depend on Word for your living, you MUST test before you commit to
Snow Leopard.

I will. Snow Leopard will go on the laptop first, then I will test
everything I depend upon, to make sure it works properly. It will be some
days or weeks before I put Snow Leopard on the work machine.

Knowing who David Pogue is, I consider it very likely that he is testing the
latest version of Word supplied by Microsoft, and the final version of Mac
OS X 10.6 supplied by Apple. Being David Pogue brings advantages some of us
do not have

Cheers

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

In David Pogue's review of Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, he said, "I experienced
frustrating glitches in various programs, including Microsoft Word..."

I assume he's talking about Word 2008. I happen to use Word 2004 – I thought
I'd see if anyone knows of glitches with Word 2004 after an upgrade to 10.6.

RE: New York Times: Apple's Sleek Upgrade. 8/26/09
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html?hp>

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[Daniel Cohen]

Nobody has [legitimately] upgraded to 10.6 because 10.6 hasn't yet been
released. The only people with any idea are authorized beta testers who are
under strict NDA to not publicly discuss whatever they might know.

MacWorld had a discussion of 10.6, and specifically stated that their
NDA expired 26th August.

 

[CyberTaz]

Nobody has [legitimately] upgraded to 10.6 because 10.6 hasn't yet been
released. The only people with any idea are authorized beta testers who
are
under strict NDA to not publicly discuss whatever they might know.

MacWorld had a discussion of 10.6, and specifically stated that their
NDA expired 26th August.

But MacWorld & David Pogue don't seem to be hanging out here very much , do
they? ;-)

 

[Daniel Cohen]

Nobody has [legitimately] upgraded to 10.6 because 10.6 hasn't yet been
released. The only people with any idea are authorized beta testers who
are
under strict NDA to not publicly discuss whatever they might know.

MacWorld had a discussion of 10.6, and specifically stated that their
NDA expired 26th August.

But MacWorld & David Pogue don't seem to be hanging out here very much , do
they? ;-)

Yeah, but maybe everyone's NDA expired at the same date.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Yeah, but maybe everyone's NDA expired at the same date.

Not sure. The press usually has different NDAs than ADC.


Corentin