#MAC MICROSOFT WORD VS PAGES MAC OS X#

All modern Mac OS X apps feature live redrawing, and Tiger's QuickTime 7.0 could even redraw live movies while they play. If you forgotten, Word 2004 and the rest of the existing Office suite can't redraw the window while it is being resized it only draws a resizing outline as applications did on the classic Mac System 7. Among other things, Word 2008 can now handle live window resizing, something the new Excel and other componets don't yet do. It is difficult to make accurate performance observations on an early beta, but the difference on Intel Macs is already very significant, particularly for Word, which seems to lead the Office 2008 suite in terms of stability and progress. This should impact how fast Word and other Office applications launch and run.īased on initial testing, it appears that Office 2008 delivers a massive improvement for both launch times and performance in general on Intel systems, but offers very little improvement for PowerPC Macs. That means it will now run natively on Intel Macs rather than relying on Apple's Rosetta translation technology to map PowerPC code to run on Intel processors. One of the most attractive features of Office 2008 in general is that it's being delivered as a Universal Binary. Here's a more in-depth look at the specific new features in Word 2008, with some comparisons to Apple's Pages 08 included with iWork. The previous segment described the challenges in front of the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft: deliver a new suite of applications with the features of the Windows side, but with an appearance and behaviors attractive to Mac users. The planned mid-January release of Office 2008 offers a significant overhaul of the productivity suite's look and features.

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