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Peter Tippett
I have been working with Mac Office 2008 for the last few weeks and I have
come to the conclusion that this version has been crippled for use in a
connected business environment, ie Office 2008 is focused on consumer users.
I had been doing work with Word 2007 and the content field functions linking
to Sharepoint, web services and XML sources on and off over the last 18
months. This has allowed my Word documents to have no need for any heavy
coding and able to be very dynamic in their functionally. Also, with the
"docx" format, I can insert data before the document opens and even update
this in real time through forms I open using XAML forms. This work ties in
very well with Microsoft's directions of "office business applications
(OBA)" which is a very fast expanding market.
I have found that MacOffice 2008 doesn't support this functionally at all
which puts Word in the same space as Pages from Apple in just being a stand
alone application which is great for consumer usage, but not very useful for
business users. I can have code to alter the docx data before opening, but
it isn't worth the work as once the document is open, I'm still limited.
As more Mac users use the Mac in the office, they will expect the connection
ability to happen which is a great area of growth. I just find it very
strange that Microsoft hasn't decided to make Mac Office work with this in
the same way the windows version does expect for Entourage with Exchange.
Peter Tippett
come to the conclusion that this version has been crippled for use in a
connected business environment, ie Office 2008 is focused on consumer users.
I had been doing work with Word 2007 and the content field functions linking
to Sharepoint, web services and XML sources on and off over the last 18
months. This has allowed my Word documents to have no need for any heavy
coding and able to be very dynamic in their functionally. Also, with the
"docx" format, I can insert data before the document opens and even update
this in real time through forms I open using XAML forms. This work ties in
very well with Microsoft's directions of "office business applications
(OBA)" which is a very fast expanding market.
I have found that MacOffice 2008 doesn't support this functionally at all
which puts Word in the same space as Pages from Apple in just being a stand
alone application which is great for consumer usage, but not very useful for
business users. I can have code to alter the docx data before opening, but
it isn't worth the work as once the document is open, I'm still limited.
As more Mac users use the Mac in the office, they will expect the connection
ability to happen which is a great area of growth. I just find it very
strange that Microsoft hasn't decided to make Mac Office work with this in
the same way the windows version does expect for Entourage with Exchange.
Peter Tippett
