Microsoft today released Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.2.3 Update.
“After you install this update, you can use Mac OS X Sync Services and Spotlight searches to sync and find Entourage items, use smart cards with Entourage 2004, and enjoy improved overall security and stability when using Microsoft Word 2004, Excel 2004, PowerPoint 2004, and Entourage 2004. This update also includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates,” Microsoft states on their “Mactopia” website.
Applies to: Microsoft Office 2004 Standard Edition, Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition, Office 2004 Professional Edition, Entourage 2004.
More info and download links for various languages here.
MacDailyNews Take: If that’s “Mactopia,” we hope we’re going to “Mactophet” instead.
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Great, more crap from Mafia$oft.
Get NeoOffice/J it is miles better and it’s FREE
http://www.neooffice.org/
MacDailyNews Take: If that’s “Mactopia,” we hope we’re going to “Mactophet” instead.
Okay, you guys owe me a new keyboard and monitor – I just did a classic spit take after reading that one!
I like bitching about Microsoft as much as the next guy … but … I sort of like Office. I genuinely like Excel, I’ll use Powerpoint when I have to and EVERYONE uses Word so I can always share documents. Given that convenience I’m not sure NeoOffice is miles better, even though it’s free. I’m not keen on maintaining free, and being alone.
Yes! Finally! Entourage all-in-one is better than 3 separate apps from Apple
Any performance increases? I use excel extensively and I found that Excel 2004 is much slower compared to Excel from Office X.
The same spreadsheet that took 40 seconds to calculate in Excel X takes over a minute and a half to calculate in Excel 2004.
Man, doesn’t even fix the scrolling touchpad issue. What good is it?
Jim, Mac users shouldn’t put up with crappy Java ports. We need to send a strong message that we won’t be interested in OpenOffice until there is a Cocoa/Aqua universal binary available.
While the NeoOffice/J developers waste their time developing a sub-standard Java version, they could be putting their resources into developing the best version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X.
NeoOffice…are you kidding I’ll stick with MS Office
i like iWork the best
I dont need a friggian spreadsheet program
I’d give it up for better programs
Word seems to be loading MUCH faster (iBook G4 1GHz 512MB) it used to take about 25-30 seconds to load (first run). now it takes only about 5 seconds (first load) and only one bounce (second run). I’m happy.
Microsoft releases Office 2004 for Mac Update
Isn’t it 2006?
MS is the only true Exchange client that I know of. It’s too bad that Mail won’t do it (it just uses IMAP)…. Hell it’s too bad that Apple doesn’t make an Exchange replacement too. It’s also too bad that MS can’t even make Entourage compatible with all the different folder types on their own Exchange server anyways.
What can I say; the Mac version of Excel is the easiest spreadsheet to use.
Just wish they would sell it alone, because I like Apples’ Pages and Keynote better than the Microsoft counterparts, and Frontpage for web design is a joke.
I love bashing Microsoft as much as the next guy, and I hope like the day is long that Apple releases an Office-killer, but NeoOffice just doesn’t compare.
I am not saying NeoOffice is bad…it’s great in fact. And yes, Word is a train wreck. PowerPoint still looks like crap. But MSOffice overall is the most robust suite out there.
But, when Apple finally gets some balls and takes it to MS with a true Apple Office, I will be there in a heartbeat. I use Keynote exclusively, and am waiting for Pages to be usable and a spreadsheet. Then my days of giving money to Microsoft will be over for good…
Making Office a Universal Binary would have made a better update.
Myself, I’d like to thank the MBU for this update, job well done. Though many bash MS the MBU does deserve kudos for all they accomplish.
On a different note I use Pages for my word processing. Pages handles graphics, pictures and the like so much better than Word. My word processing needs have much to do with copy/paste graphics, JPEGs and the like into documents. Those items must stay put and be easy to align with text. Way too often MS Word gets graphics jumbled. Then again Pages is more a page layout than word processor (though it can be used as a word processor). For complex interconnected docs MS Word is the tool I find to consistantly achieve this.
MS Word, Apple Pages; use them as a tool for ones needs. Same as some families have two cars, a sedan and SUV from different manufactures. Don’t get hung-up on meaningless flame wars, if it does what one needs use it.
They support sync services in a very backwards way — they let Address Book do all the syncing! They take your Entourage address book and dump it into Apple’s Address Book! I don’t want that! I want my Apple Address Book just for iChat, and I want my Entourage address book to be synced between multiple computers. Doesn’t address my needs.
Although Spotlight integration is SWEEET!
quote:
“Microsoft releases Office 2004 for Mac Update
Isn’t it 2006?”
If you look at their Windows side of products, they currently have Office 2003 out, and they ‘re releasing 2007 later this year.
If they follow their usual schedule, that goes for Office for mac 2007/8 sometime next year.
it won’t load…. I get the spinning ball of death… lol.
The STUPIDEST problem with Mac versions of office, apparently for years…
Try copying and then pasting a graphic into Word. Not drag and drop, and not using Insert > Picture. Plain Jane universal copy and paste, the function that revolutionized the computer industry in 1984.
Done? Good. Save it, then try and open it on a Windows version of Word, and the graphic has been replaced with an error message “Quicktime and a TIFF decompressor are required to view this picture, blah blah blah”.
This is first class BS, and very insidious. It opens fine on a Mac. If you don’t have a Windows box to test on, you won’t know there’s a problem. But if you send it to a Windows-only person (work or otherwise), they see the error and may think along these lines:
1) I already have Quicktime, and done everything else it’s asking for, it still doesn’t show it. Quicktime by Apple must suck
2) A Mac person sent it. Mac versions of Office must not be fully compatible.
3) I would like to try out a Mac, but I must have a version of Office
4) therefore, Macs are not an option any longer
MS has no reason to add functionality to auto-convert a pasted image into a cross-platform format because of this! It’s truly retarded because drag and drop from Finder and Insert > Picture works just fine, but just about everyone I know uses copy and paste.
Oh, and to top it off, the Office 2004 “Compatibility Checker” feature when saving a document doesn’t catch the picture format error.
Well, I for one welcome the update. Entourage now urinates from altitude all over Outlook when it comes to finding that important e-mail from three months ago. Stuff like that is important to me.
The only programs that crash regularly on my Mac are MS Word and Powerpoint. I’m not certain whether this is with greater frequency than In Windows. In terms of functionality, you cannot highlight a webpage with text and graphics, and copy and paste into Mac Word: the text is copied and pasted, the graphic are not, unlike Word in Windows.
mossman, you are so correct. I had this happen once when I created a document with about 60 screenshots on it…not a happy camper when I realized I should have been dragging and dropping or “insert->picture” instead.