![]() ![]() I just purchases the newest MacBook Pro and it came with the Mountain Lion OS - will all my Apple devices sync properly? The only reason I am downloading the OS X Mountian Lion is becuase I can't use iCloud on my iMac!!! no one told me I needed to have a newer OS. and have Microsoft Office 2008 - is that compatible with Mountian Lion. I am downloading Mountain Lion right now. Free alternatives are out there (without the need to do the 'easy' steps for 'old' folks above). docx in future release formats, or make life easier by simply buying a copy from eBay or Amazon at a reduced price.Īs I say, it all depends on how much you rely on MS Office for your work. You can use MS Office in a virtual environment if you wish to do a lot of mucking around just to run an 8 year old and outdated version, which may well have trouble opening. Despite other free and paid alternatives which serve some and perhaps yourself, the ONLY way to continue full compatability with all MS Office docs both past and present and most likely in the very near future, is to update to the latest version, currently 2011. If you are dependant on MS Office and wish to use it as a main program in your workflow, then yes, you will need to update. Do i need to buy another copy of the office software at $120 or is there some other way to get to my documents? Snow Leopard is $29 and Parallels 7 is $79 retail (cheaper from competitive sources) and Parallels offers a 14 day free trial of Parallels 7 on their website:Īssistance with these instructions for old guys is available at that thread as well (from another old guy!)Īfer downloading moutain lion, no power pc applications are supported. So for those of use that need to run Lion, I have offered the option to install Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels 7:įull Snow Leopard installation instructions into Parallels 7 are here: The problem is that after 6 years of the transition, Apple's license to use the underlying software expired for OS X Lion and all version thereafter (and it is doubtful that the current owner of the software, IBM, would relicense it, even if Apple were inclined to do so). Rosetta miraculously allows PowerPC applications to work on the Intel processor transparently you do not know it is even present. When Apple made its transition to the Intel CPU, they licensed software that they included in all versions of OS X (from Tiger to Leopard and optionally, Snow Leopard) called Rosetta. The reason your applications do not work in Mountain Lion is that they were written for the older PowerPC CPU that all Macs used up to 2006. ![]() So I have approached the overall problem differently. The problem with this approach is that Office 2011 will "convert" your earlier data files and there lies the rub! For example, I have the need to weekly open a chart created in Excel 2004, but Excel 2011 trashes the chart in its "conversion." Microsoft Office's 2011 version is compatible with Lion and presumably either works with Mountain Lion or an update will make it so. Depending upon how extensive your library of legacy Microsoft Office data files are, you may want to consider continuing to use Microsoft Office 2004. ![]()
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