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Article: Office remodeling: Microsoft Office v.X brings the Mac's most widely used applications to Mac OS X.(Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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EXCEPT FOR A FEW RISK-TAKERS OUT THERE, most of us don't welcome major change. We need convincing evidence that leaving our comfortable ruts will benefit us. This is especially true when a change involves something we use every day, something our livelihoods depend on--for example, our operating systems and software programs.
With the release of Office v.X, Microsoft may have given Mac users a reason to leave the rut of Mac OS 9. Thousands of us rely on Word, Excel, Entourage, and PowerPoint, and those applications now run natively under Mac OS X. In fact, the new versions of these programs don't run any other way, unlike some programs that work with both OS 9 ...