Lion will not support Mac Office. It was not disclosed.

Which Office version?

It's not up to Apple to tell anyone what third party apps will or will not work with the next major update of an operating system.

Microsoft is no different. Apple and Microsoft update their software. It's up to the third party vendors to then update their software to work in the new OS.

Well, without exhaustive testing of ALL the suite, I can confirm MSWord from both Office 2011 and Office 2008 run happily on my just-updated-to-Lion MacPro

Both 2008 and 2011 have been running for months on my Lion system, only 2004 doesn't work.

Hello all:

Office 2004 (I clung to it) will not work. I decided to buy iWork as it supports Word documents.

Barry

The continuation of Apple's march of planned obsolescence.

saeisenman wrote:

*** is going on?

You're mistaken, that's what *** is going on.

How is it Apple's fault that 7 year old Microsoft software does not run on it's new OS?

It's not their 'fault', but they are going to lose sales and they tick off customers by such lame practices.

For Office 2004.... right.

I highly doubt people will not upgrade their machine so that they can use Office 2004 when there is 2008 and 2011 available

If someone is buying a mac mini for $599 for example, this pushes the cost to minimum of $728 to upgrade office. If someone is at the limit of the their budget, they are going to wait or not upgrade at all. Simple economics.

My Office 2008 runs fine but it's the LAST Office I'll buy.

Purchased iWork, converted all my stuff and never looked back.

Lion will not support PPC apps period. I have Office: Mac 2004 which I will have to run in Sno if I want to use it.

😉 c

I remember all these comments when we moved from System 6 to System 7, and 7 to 8, and 8 to 9. Heaps of invective too when going from 68000 to PPC. And when OSX was first released - although 10.2 was the first practical usable version.

Even then, there were many moaning at Apple because Quark didn't release a native version of Xpress for some time.

Was it Apple's fault if Quark dragged their feet?

****, no! It game me the bargaining power at work to justify a move to InDesign (which I've never regretted).

Microsoft OSes became bloated through a misguided attempt to be as backward compatible as possible - result? very slow operations, huge disk upgrades need and even then a long wait for a myriad of drivers to be updated.

Don't want to fork out for Office 2011? - then look on ebay for 2008 - here in the UK there's a 2008 upgrade disk (unused) going currently at £0.99 - thats not much more than US$1.50.

Not exactly budget-busting...