Technology loading/running MS Word/Powerpoint on Mac OS

[juiceman311]

Are MS Word/Powerpoint glitchy (slow to load, slow to run) while running Mac OS X?

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[southerndoc]

No. Even my Powerbook G4 isn't slow.

 

[deleted59964]

juiceman - if you mean running the PPC versions on intel macs - the Core duo's are fast enough that they run fine despite the emulation. I doubt I'd notice any difference when Office goes intel native.

 

[southerndoc]

Actually I think some of the tests on Office show that the Core 2 Duo chips run Office faster than PPC's.

The last I heard, a Universal version of Office should be released this fall and is rumored to have a lot of cool features that the Windows version doesn't have. (The same was true when the last Office:mac was released.)

 

[alwaysaangel]

Not any glitchier than it is on a PC.

Will it still freeze occasionally or quit out without you wanting it to? Yes, but not anymore than it would on a PC. Its microsoft software - it will always have glitches.

 

[Dr Who]

I use it quite often on my imac and so far I havent had any problems. I also have windows vista installed with office 2007 using boot camp and I have had absoluteno no problems opening files from one operating system in another.