OS Lion should be the best system?! Why is my Office 2004 not supported anymore?
Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Blame Microsoft for not providing free updates to a 7 year-old (and 2 versions old) product.
Either upgrade to Office 2011, or use a free Office alternative (i.e. openoffice)
(...and if you decide to pay Microsoft, ask them why they charge $100 for a program when Apple only charges $30 for a System)
Because its a PowerPC application, and those are no longer supported in Lion.
Office 2004 is actually a PowerPC (PPC) application, which means it was originally designed to run on the old Apple PowerPC processors before they switched to Intel in 2006. On Snow Leopard, PPC applications were able to use Rosetta, which was a piece of software that would enable older applications to run.
In Lion, Rosetta is now gone and you'll have to upgrade your version of Office.
I don't need an Office update, I just still like to use my old software. Office 2004 was now shut down by apple, by making a new system software & not by microsoft. It would be great not just to inform about new features, they should inform also about the thkngs not workinv anymore. It should be the decision of the user to use an old system, it shouldn't be the decision of a provider of a sytem.
I don't need an Office update,
If you're running OS X 10.7 you do.
I just still like to use my old software.
If you llke old software and don't need new features (MS Office has made a lot of improvements in 7 years), then I do not understand why you upgraded OS X.
Office 2004 was now shut down by apple
No, Apple no longer supports PowerPC Apps. There is nothing preventing M$ from releasing a free update to Office 2004 convering it to a Universal or Intel App.
they should inform also about the thkngs not workinv anymore.
Apple did, 6 years ago:
The Apple–Intel transition was the process of changing the CPU of Macintosh computers from PowerPC processors to Intel x86 processors. The transition became public knowledge at the 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), when Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs made the announcement that the company would make a transition from the use of PowerPC microprocessors supplied by Freescale (formerly Motorola) and IBM in its Macintosh computers, to processors designed and manufactured by Intel, a chief supplier for most of Apple's competitors.
Why is my Office 2004 not supported anymore?
