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Apple Mac OS X Lion doesn't play nice with others
FRUIT THEMED Apple's Mac OS X Lion operating system isn't working very well with Microsoft and Google software. It seems both companies haven't been paying enough attention to the changes in Lion.
Mac users will find more than their fair share of issues in Microsoft's Office productivity suite, while on Google's Chrome browser version 14, it has come down to an unfortunate coincidence.
If you're a Microsoft Office junkie with a Mac you might not be too pleased to know that the productivity suite has problems running under Apple's latest OS. Microsoft has communicated about the issue on its Office for Mac blog.
Amongst these major and minor issues, Office Communicator - probably Microsoft's first decent attempt at integrating Messenger into corporate environments - hits a major snag with Mac OS X Lion, as it will crash at launch and be unavailable to users until Microsoft can figure out why it happens. But that's really okay because, according to Microsoft, this problem only affects Office Enterprise users... and who would use Office in a business anyway?
Outlook will also refuse to import your Apple Mail, in case you're migrating your accounts. It won't be an issue if you've got everything set up in Outlook already. Other issues with Office for Mac 2011 include minor cosmetic problems that Microsoft will have an easier time sorting out.
Google's Chrome problem is slightly different and a bit simpler to correct. While Google Chrome developers had all the right intentions when implementing multitouch changes to the web browser, they missed out on some of the new features' finer details. Swiping is actually inverted in Chrome. Yes, the three-finger movement has been replaced with the two-finger movement, as per the OS X Lion manual, only you flip forward to go back, and vice-versa.
Either two major companies have issues in programming for Mac OS X Lion, or they weren't paying attention to the fine print when they were writing the code.
Microsoft's position on this matter is that the kinks are being worked out of the system and the major ones are actually minor ones because Apple Mac OS X users aren't really a 'corporate' crowd anyway. Chrome, since it is still a work in progress, won't remain much of a problem, as Google can easily implement the needed changes. µ
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...to look at iWork again. These days I prefer it to Office due to the more polished output
Those people blaming Apple for all the issues need to ask themselves whether MS has ever felt obligated to ensure that their new OS runs every major/popular software package when they release.
The obligation is on software developers to have versions available that are compatible with new releases OS regardless of the platform. The only obligation on Apple is to clearly state what has been tested on the new OS so upgraders can be aware of potential pitfalls, and in my experience, Apple did so.
To blame the company releasing the OS is akin to blaming a movie distributor for not having your favourite movie available when you upgrade to Blu-ray.
Regardless, gone are the days where I leap at every new upgrade. Now I prefer to let people with more patience (read less spare time!) deal with the bugs until I know my requirements won't be compromised. That is across all platforms, and I'm a OSX, Windows and Linux user, so hey.
Having late access to betas of a work in progress OS is useful up to a point. Until you get the final version, you can't be real sure of anything, really.
@ Aaarrrnnn, remember when windows 7 came out and there were all sorts of problems with iTunes. Apple just shrugged their shoulders and commented that not many people had windows 7 so it was not a big issue. How many beta's and release candidates were there? What goes around comes around.
I think the issue is that Apple have one of their core, main applications - MS Office, of which the new version of their OS breaks.
So, if Apple issue an upgrade that breaks software why is this not Apples fault? I can understand Apple wanting to dump some legacy stuff (I wish MS would do the same sometimes, but backwards compatibility is a really big thing for MS) but I doubt MS Office is doing anything...legacy?
I don't know... Apple apologists....
I hope that Apple releases a patch...
As far as I know, Apple had several public betas of OSX Lion. Its not their fault why the applications from Microsoft or Google is breaking down because during the beta period, Microsoft and Google should have allotted more resources to prevent these problems from occurring in the first place.
It is unbelievable. One may drop an install of office 2003 on anything from windows 2000 to windows 7 64 bits, it shall work fine.
Apple is now so arrogant (it has always been) it can afford to break compatibility with "productivity" applicagtions.
Well, when one reads the comments on the mac office blog, you realize they are so dumb morons... they keep asking for full screen support, we had it for years (press F11 on firefox, ie, word, aso).
Hey this sounds like a windows bug, you know the things that show MS was not doing good engineering??? Liek in Vista... Wait this is Apple, they could not have made a mistake by not supporting two thier biggest applciations, its Microsoft and Googles fault of course!
Inquirer = bunch of geeks who try to be cool by being anti tech establishment and supporting black hat hackers ha ha
Just forgot that Apple is tech establishment