Does Lion support entourage 2008?

Yes you can

Only if Entourage was pre-installed on another machine and you migrate the application from the old Mac to the Lion machine. The problem is the installer of MS Office 2008 is written in PPC (Power PC) source code and Lion will not run PPC apps. You can use Setup Assistant if migrating from another Mac this will work.

Hi Mr Kaufmann

There seems to be some confusion on this one, this blog:

http://www.officeformachelp.com/2011/07/microsoft-announces-lion-compatibility-f or-office-for-mac/

has as many posters whose installation succeeded as those who failed, MS state that some 2008 addons (Query for one) don't work because they are PPC apps, no mention of installer issues, I no longer have a copy of 2008 so can't try, has anyone actually tried to install 2008 or are we all just repeating the 'conventional wisdom' du jour?

I don't have MS Office 2008 so I can't test either. I got 2011 shortly after it was introduced so I have to admit I am guilty of "repeating the 'conventional wisdom' du jour."

Same for me, I installed 2011, disliked it strongly and stopped using it but no longer had my 2008 discs so couldn't go back...

Maybe someone with a copy of Office 2008 for Mac could experiment and see if the installer runs?

🙂

Really you liked 2008 better than 2011; personally I think 2011 is a much much better product. To each his own, I tend to use Word over Pages use both Numbers and Excel. At the moment I have no need for PP or Outlook so those just take up a little disk space. I use Address Book, iCal and Mail I just like those more than Outlook. When I sold my MBP I included my license of 2008 with it so my media is gone too.

Yes perhaps someone with 2008 will pipe up and let us know their experience.

Actually I only preferred Entourage to Outlook (and yes, Entourage is horrid) 2011 is far better with respect to the rest of the suite.

For me Outlook is awful, poor iMap support, non-existent webDav/calDav/cardDav support and no Exchange 2003 support, I know that Entourage lacked all the 'Dav's' as well but it became outdated rather than starting out that way 🙂

I like Mail etc now 🙂

A couple of links to posts from users of this site who have installed O2008

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FYI