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From: Lao Ming on 15 Jan 2010 21:24 I just recently upgraded to 10.6 and discovered that I cannot install Office 2008 without installing Rosetta. Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't one of the major points of 10.6 to remove the PPC code? And wasn't one of the major points of Office 2008 that it would be written for Intel? So why would Microsoft be so brilliant to then write the installer to be a PPC app? Lao-Ming In OSX, curiosity always kills the cat.
From: nospam on 15 Jan 2010 21:45 In article <834dc64c-8c22-448e-bcf0-cbe47bef64bd(a)r19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, Lao Ming <laomingliu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I just recently upgraded to 10.6 and discovered that I cannot install > Office 2008 without installing Rosetta. Correct me if I am wrong but > wasn't one of the major points of 10.6 to remove the PPC code? And > wasn't one of the major points of Office 2008 that it would be written > for Intel? So why would Microsoft be so brilliant to then write the > installer to be a PPC app? the real question is why office 2004 under rosetta on an intel mac is faster than office 2008 which is intel native.
From: nospam on 15 Jan 2010 22:37 In article <michelle-4D9C89.20010615012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > And wasn't one of the major points of Office 2008 that it would be > > written for Intel? > > Nope: he's right. office 2004 was powerpc only. one of office 2008's major points was that it would be universal, and your link shows exactly that.
From: JF Mezei on 15 Jan 2010 23:53 nospam wrote: > he's right. office 2004 was powerpc only. one of office 2008's major > points was that it would be universal, and your link shows exactly > that. Is it possible that you would have some older "plug ins" that are PPC only and when you invoke the Intel Word, when it tries to load those plug ins, the OS intervenes and starts up Rosetta or prompts to install Rosetta ?
From: Lao Ming on 16 Jan 2010 00:03
On Jan 15, 8:53 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam...(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > nospam wrote: > > he's right. office 2004 was powerpc only. one of office 2008's major > > points was that it would be universal, and your link shows exactly > > that. > > Is it possible that you would have some older "plug ins" that are PPC > only and when you invoke the Intel Word, when it tries to load those > plug ins, the OS intervenes and starts up Rosetta or prompts to install > Rosetta ? I never got to the applications themselves. I stopped the moment that the installer said I needed Rosetta. |