<![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://gizmodo.com Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:36:27 EDT Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:36:27 EDT http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4675566 I changed to iWork when I found out Office08 did not have FULL Exchange Support. Not Exchanging categories or tasks is just stupid. Patch that and I would come back.

CEOself

]]> 4:366812:c4675566 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:36:27 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4675119 Office 2008 is pretty nice.

quikboy

]]> 4:366812:c4675119 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:43:30 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4670180 @nutbastard: How much $$ for you to tickle mine?

berribrand

]]> 4:366812:c4670180 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:01:41 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4667060 also:

"AOL announced that on February 1, 2008 it would drop support for the Netscape web browser and would no longer develop new releases."

It's dead. Firefox has a 16% share according to various data. Firefox is free. Ubuntu is loaded onto thousands of computers every week if not day. Ubuntu is free.

If you think free software is in any way inferior to expensive software, you're just fooling yourself to justify having thrown your money away, and most certainly haven't actually tried OO.o

nutbastard

]]> 4:366812:c4667060 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:06:07 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4666870 @flyboy:
netscape usage while still significant (holds in chuckle) is on the DECLINE while OO.o use is on the RISE.

But whatever, pay hundreds of dollars for buggy software that has free equivilants - whatever tickles your testicles.

nutbastard

]]> 4:366812:c4666870 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:00:25 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4666197 About friking time!
No, wait. I dont even have that version of office. Sorry, the force of habit.

dysthymia

]]> 4:366812:c4666197 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:41:30 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4665662 I have MS Office, but I've been using Open Office for the last couple of years on both PC and Mac platforms. Works quite well for me and better in some respects than MS Office. YMMV

vagrant

]]> 4:366812:c4665662 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:26:05 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4664850 Entourage is so so so so much better than Office 2004.

mcjake

]]> 4:366812:c4664850 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:59:32 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4664800 Only on Gizmodo can a patch for Office turn into a flame war...

NeoXY

]]> 4:366812:c4664800 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:57:55 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4663975 @nutbastard: Netscape has lots of users and its going to win!!!


Its free and open source.


oh goody


kinda like Openoffice

flyboy

]]> 4:366812:c4663975 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:30:17 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4662535 How about fixing the automatic addition of template filetype extensions added to every doc, xls, and ppt file downloaded from the internet.
Office 08 on Tiger

g8trtim

]]> 4:366812:c4662535 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:39:13 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4662515 You should go straight to the man and complain. Check the below blog out.

www.fakebeastmaster.blogspot.com

MrZero

]]> 4:366812:c4662515 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:38:22 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4662335 @kaneshadow:
" Kind of like when retards sort recycled glass."

Awesome. Truely awesome.


Out2gtcha

]]> 4:366812:c4662335 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:31:08 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4662301 Since I no longer require sending files to a professor's email to hand in assignments, I dumped Office and got iWork and saved money, since 04 is a piece of shit on Intel Macs. Really, the delays from keystrokes to characters appearing gets worse after prolonged use, so you students typing long papers will eventually see the effects of Rosetta and Office eating your memory.

@flyboy: You sir, have failed.

Kaiser-Machead

]]> 4:366812:c4662301 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:29:56 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4661870 I like Office for Mac, it's like saying even though we're Mac users, we want to be productive members of society. Kind of like when retards sort recycled glass.

(just kidding- love you guys)

kaneshadow

]]> 4:366812:c4661870 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:17:12 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4661088 does anyone know what flyboy is babbling about?

nutbastard

]]> 4:366812:c4661088 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:50:41 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4660852 @nutbastard:
Go Netscape Go

[archive.netscape.com]

flyboy

]]> 4:366812:c4660852 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:35:22 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4660717 @nutbastard: Go Netscape, Go

flyboy

]]> 4:366812:c4660717 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:29:17 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4660380 And that quote is 3 years old BTW...

nutbastard

]]> 4:366812:c4660380 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:17:41 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4660294 @JacquesAss:
Yeah you get the nicotine much faster that way : \

nutbastard

]]> 4:366812:c4660294 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:15:11 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4660269 @flyboy:
Way to make an ass of yourself...

"OpenOffice.org probably has over 40 million users. Oh sure we can't count them. We can only estimate. But as of 10 days ago, we had at least so far 49 million binaries downloaded. That does not include binaries distributed via the Linux distributors, alternative servers, CDROMs, or even P2P. It also does not include direct hits to our servers. So the number of users may be far larger or even smaller. But who's counting? Probably only Microsoft, and judging from its market behaviour it sees us as counting a great deal."

nutbastard

]]> 4:366812:c4660269 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:14:19 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4659447 @nutbastard: yeah - like be one of the 50 that use it and currently unemployed ...

flyboy

]]> 4:366812:c4659447 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:46:14 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4659431 NeoOffice, iWork, Wiki. I don't I use MS Office anymore.

jim

]]> 4:366812:c4659431 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:45:20 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4659353 @nutbastard:

"FUCK THE PATCH" - always great advice...

JacquesAss

]]> 4:366812:c4659353 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:42:22 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4659266 So, MS autoupdates AutoUpdate, presumably to get ready for this update.

A day after the update is released? Still not on AutoUpdate. This somehow seems perversely correct.

JacquesAss

]]> 4:366812:c4659266 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:39:08 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4659110 FUCK THE PATCH - Use Open Office!

[www.openoffice.org]

nutbastard

]]> 4:366812:c4659110 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:33:15 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4658906 @flyboy:

That's a really funny statement in light of the fact that it's been repeatedly reaffirmed that MacBU, percentage wise, is one of the most profitable departments at Microsoft.

Dearhaw

]]> 4:366812:c4658906 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:26:30 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4658611 Wow Microsoft never releases software before it is ready so it is a big shock that this fine quality product was so bug ridden it needed a fix. Shocking!

Triborough

]]> 4:366812:c4658611 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:16:10 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4658483 this was released yesterday, actually, but thanks for staying on top of things

blargh

]]> 4:366812:c4658483 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:29 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4658395 Whenever I had to work on a semi-large document (think 40-50 pages, about 10 Mb, few images), Word would freeze/crash/crawl/halt/BBOD on me. Hopefully, this will help.

J. Nadeau

]]> 4:366812:c4658395 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:08:20 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4658035 hmm. where'd my comment go?

The bug i constantly experience is when I am outlining and type "I. blah blah blah" Word changes it to "d. blah blah blah" and indents it 5 tabs.

I have 600 pages of notes thus far this semester and am about to start outlining. Please fix this bug before I get too far into the outlines; i can't take it anymore.

godawgs7

]]> 4:366812:c4658035 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:53:49 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4657961 How about they fix the outling as well.

When i type "I. blah blah blah" I don't want it indented 5 tabs and for the number to be changed to "d. blah blah blah."

Seriously, that kills me. The bug existed in 2004 as well. I know what number I'm trying to put in, don't try and change it for me!

I have 600 pages of notes so far this semester and I don't want to have to deal w/ this anymore as I'm about to start outlining and its NOT going to be fun.

godawgs7

]]> 4:366812:c4657961 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:51:28 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4657880 @thechansen:
just be grateful there is an office product for the platform..its not worth the investment - just needed to keep the justice dept. at bay.
a product kept alive to stop lawsuits, almost an SCO of the desktop office world.. heh heh

flyboy

]]> 4:366812:c4657880 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:49:06 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4657545 fucking .docx

that's all I have to say. It does automatically remove the annoying macros virus that goes around like herpes though.

discounteggroll

]]> 4:366812:c4657545 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:34:11 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4657423 Open Office? iWork? Even slow as snail shit Office 04? They never crashed on me. Still irks me that the old Office for Mac never became a universal binary app. Haven't tried the new office because I already have 3 other office app suites.

thechansen

]]> 4:366812:c4657423 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:27:43 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4657390 @imTheKing: I would put Word and Excel in the really, really, really good category. I have had some quirkiness with Powerpoint. Bullets reformat and pages shift at will. I don't use Entourage.

jdhuck

]]> 4:366812:c4657390 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:26:25 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4657325 WTF? I tried to use the autoupdate feature within Entourage. It said there were no updates??? Now I'm downloading the update on your link above. We'll see if it matters.

Tek Elements

]]> 4:366812:c4657325 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:23:00 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4657249 Call me grouchy. I think I locked up 5 times yesterday alone.

Tek Elements

]]> 4:366812:c4657249 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:18:59 EDT <![CDATA[Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness]]> http://gizmodo.com/366812/office-for-mac-2008-update-fixes-crashiness#c4657231 GO MICROSOFT!..........

Anyone have first impressions on this? I hear its really really really good. True or false?

imTheKing

]]> 4:366812:c4657231 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:18:15 EDT