Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

Bob Jacobson wrote:

John, thanks. That was so unobvious, I wouldn't ever have gotten it. I posted a request to the Forum for advice and no one picked up. I appreciate your advice.

Actually, Bob, I did answer your question: <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3205241?answerId=15718404022#15718404022>

I gave you correct answer credit. Thanks, a slightly different solution.

Chices are good. 🙂

My Office 2008 (Student and Teacher Edition) disc does _not_ work. It's installer is PPC. I got mine the first year Office 2008 was available. Another person who's an adjunct at the same state college I do adjunct work for and who got his copy about six months before Office 2011 became available _will_ work.

Facts are facts, man.

There is something else going on with your disc then. The installer on my Office for Mac 2008 (Home & Student Edition) disc is dated 1 December 2007 and it works. I just installed it to Lion. The Wikipedia page says this version of Office is fully Universal and my install confirms that.

Facts are facts, indeed.

According to Wikipedia there was no Student and Teacher Edition of Office for Mac 2008. Are you sure you're not accidentally confusing it with 2004, which did release a Student and Teacher Edition?

i don't have the disc immediately to hand, but I do have the Office 2011 equivalent. That one has stamped on it 'Licensed for use only by students and faculty' and 'Applications Student Media' That's what's on the Office 2007 disc. I'll try to dig up the Office 2008 disc.

"The genstures work fine on my mac (though I could never get used to the 'reversed' way, it's just not natural to me - but it was easy to set it back in preferences)."

I made an effort a while ago to avoid this kind of thinking. The fact is that if you kept at it you would get used to it pretty quick, hence the only thing stopping you is the fact that you think you can't. Self fullfilling prophecy really :-) I'm getting used to it so quickly that after 1 day I'm finding myself scrolling the opposite way on windows machines. It really makes much more sense because there is no point having it work one way for touch screens and the other way for touch pads or touch mice (magic mouse).

You can't use Wikipedia as the source for everything. I have a Home/Student 2008 Office part# X13-84395-02.

And here's the Office 2007 Student and Teacher's Edition disc.

geordidog wrote:

You can't use Wikipedia as the source for everything. I have a Home/Student 2008 Office part# X13-84395-02.

No kidding.

Well stated Alansky1, you are 100% correct in my opinion. Working with Mac since system 7 and then moving solely to Mac's since Panther I have been slow to upgrade any major OS release. 10.7.2 should be a stable release, although I personally have waited to the .3 or .4 release for the sole purposes you addressed. We can all get excited about the hype and want to check out the new stuff, but at what cost and frustration. There are always issues with a "zero" release and we should all know this by now, especially when it is moving away from old technology, i.e. no more Rosetta and PowerPC. We all knew that was coming, this is no secret and should have been no surprise to anyone. If you need to run old software, and 2004 Office is OLD, then stick with SL. I had a great G5 and loved it, but technology made me move on. That's life in this field. I would have to say Alansky1 comments are worth looking at and pondering. Kind of like crossing the street. Look both ways and listen before you cross. Backup your system before you upgrade. If you don't like it, RESTORE.

geordidog wrote:

You can't use Wikipedia as the source for everything. I have a Home/Student 2008 Office part# X13-84395-02.

And why can't I use Wikipedia as a reference if the information is accurate? My copy of Office for Mac 2008 (home & student edition) has the same part # as yours.

Um, ok. Office 2007 is for Windows.

I can't find the Office 2008 disc; it's probably at the office, that being were I tested it under Lion, as Lion ain't on my home machine. (and won't be, either.) However, it's similar to the ones I've posted. I have found student and teacher discs for XP, Vista, Win 7, Server 2003, and other items. Do you doubt that the Office 2008 disc exists? If so I'll continue looking for it.