[wunderkind]

Can somebody shed a light if Office X is compatible with Tiger? Thanks.

[TETENAL]

Originally posted by wunderkind:
Can somebody shed a light if Office X is compatible with Tiger? Thanks.

Tiger is unfinished work. Whether Office has any problems with it or not currently is completely irrelevant.

[kiskynet]

Yes it'll work.. along with everyhing else that runs on Panther, I would imagine. I'm still running the first Office X thats worked through 10.1 -> 10.3. Got to admire the engineering in OS X for the extent of backwards compatibility they manage to maintain on both hardware and software.

[wunderkind]

Originally posted by kiskynet:
Yes it'll work.. along with everyhing else that runs on Panther, I would imagine.
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This is encouraging. Thanks. Anybody knows first-hand? I am just trying to figure out how much will be the Tiger upgrade cost and if I need to include Office 2004 price into it.

[eatinwokout]

i can vouch for office 2004 working in tiger (development). remember it's still in development though. i haven't explored all the features of office on tiger so i can't say that everything works.

[kman42]

There's a link today on Macsurfer about the MacBU at MS working on new features for Office, including ensuring that it works with Tiger technology. They specifically mentioned Spotlight integration, although I would think this means creating a plugin for Spotlight such that it can read all of the metadata in Office rather than Office having Spotlight search functionality built-in to the apps.

kman

[wunderkind]

But I was asking about Office X... If it works in Tiger, I'd rather not spend any money on an absolutely unnecessary upgrade from Office X to Office 2004.

[kman42]

Originally posted by wunderkind:
But I was asking about Office X... If it works in Tiger, I'd rather not spend any money on an absolutely unnecessary upgrade from Office X to Office 2004.

Well, it sounds like 2004 will work. Whether X will work is anyone's guess.

[Hi I'm Ben]

There's really no reason it shouldn't work. The only types of programs that would -break- from this kind of OS upgrade would be things like Shapeshifter, USB Overdrive... things that work with the OS itself. Office is standalone.

[Angus_D]

Apple will try hard to maintain backwards compatibility with existing apps from OS X release to release. If you a developer only uses documented APIs then the chances are it will work. There are always a few exceptions, of course. And you should never make inferences about the finished release of an OS from development versions.

My magic 8 ball says "Ask again later."

[tikki]

Originally posted by kman42:
There's a link today on Macsurfer about the MacBU at MS working on new features for Office, including ensuring that it works with Tiger technology

how about they invest more time in making Entourage's exchange support suck less. I know myself and a lot of other people would be happy campers.

[alphasubzero949]

Originally posted by Angus_D:

My magic 8 ball says "Ask again later."

...especially given how much the UI changed from previous builds.

[Superchicken]

I imagine for an suite like Office they will go out of their way to not make it break. It hink you're safe.