Will MS Office run on Mac OS X

[imported_SiberianX37]

I know I know stupid n00b question but will a regular ms office 2006 or 2007 made for windows run on the new Macs running intel chips? Thanks guys

 

[imported_Ned Flanders]

using bootcamp - Yes But not in the macOSx.

 

[Noema]

Yep. You'll have to use Bootcamp like Ned says to be able to install Windows XP and then run Office from there. You can also run Windows in a VMachine within OSX and the run office from there.

OpenOffice, however, can run natively on OSX and it's free.

 

[MrChad]

Office 2004 also runs natively on Macs.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Noema
OpenOffice, however, can run natively on OSX and it's free.

OpenOffice only runs under X and runs really poorly on osx. NeoOffice is a decent cocoa port but it's pretty slow (at least on my g4 powerbook, might be very different on an intel machine).

Edit: damn language filter

 

[Rilex]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Office 2004 also runs natively on Macs.

Natively on PPC Macs.

There is no native Intel-binary and won't be until a 180+ days after the release of Office 2007.

If you're dealing with complex Word documents, you're better off dual booting or using Paralells/VMWare.

 

[Slowlearner]

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/report-200608.html

 

[Noema]

If you've got the Intel Mac already, I see no reason for not dual-booting with OSX and XP. You get the best of both worlds. You get your cake and you eat it .

 

[Nothinman]

If you've got the Intel Mac already, I see no reason for not dual-booting with OSX and XP. You get the best of both worlds. You get your cake and you eat it .

Except for the fact that dual booting sucks and you'll most likely just end up picking one OS and sticking to it all of the time, essentially just eating either the icing or the cake and letting the other sit.

 

[Scott66]

You can buy office for the mac but as stated above it is still the PPC edition so you will be running it under rosetta and it does slow it down. Best to get a virtulizer like parallels. This means you need to buy a copy of windows XP to run within Parallels you have to buy as well. This works well but gets expensive.

Until Microsoft finally comes out with a universal version of office for apple, the above option is best. Just read that Parallels is now able to run VISTA as well and is trying hard to improve its 3-d graphic handling.

 

[AmigaMan]

I use Word and Excel 2004 for Mac on a daily basis on my MacBookPro (2Ghz, 2GB). It's fine for small documents, but maximizing a Word doc with a couple pictures on a 20" Dell LCD and doing side-by-side views of pages makes for a very slow experience when scrolling. Excel doesn't seem to be too bad, but I also don't have anything that would stress it out.