Microsoft Office and Virtual PC
Reports indicate that beyond the current offerings of Virtual PC as a standalone package, Microsoft is also planning on bundling Virtual PC with Mac Microsoft Office to create a new Professional Office package. The standard (non-VPC) version of Office will continue to be made available and will see a price drop to make room for the new Professional suite. The introduction of a Student & Teacher version is also expected.
This reorganization will more closely mirror their Windows XP offerings for Office which include Professional, Standard and Student & Teacher versions.
Update: Prices are reported to be $499 for Office v. X Professional Edition, $399 for Office v. X. Standard, $149 for Office v. X Student and Teacher.
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But, as we move inline with the windows version, does that mean they will have the same UI and interface? Will it lose the interface guidelines and be come less OSX -ish and more XP-ish...
Originally posted by stoid
Will VPC still be available as a standalone package??
"Reports indicate that beyond the current offerings of Virtual PC as a standalone package, Microsoft is also planning..."
wowsa. i just wrote my initial impression based on the tone of the article...
i guess thinking out loud isn't a good thing then...
for the record, read my post below...
Originally posted by mkaake
yeah... almost sounds like they're gonna start making one version of office and expect us to use vpc to run it...
except that they aren't.
arn
Actually, though, I think if VPC were done better, so that it didn't run in a window but ran Windows apps so that they looked like any other windows, that could be a big improvement.
BTW, does anybody know how to copy from VPC and paste into a Mac application? I can't get it to work, and the manual says nothing about it.
This is exactly what I feared. We will have to depend on VPC to run all M$ products ( and possibly Adobe's new products offerings), and there wont be any mac versions of softwares. So, both the #1 and #2 software makers are heading in the same direction. Hopefully VPC (if microsfot wont cripple it) and realpc will run faster on g5 machines.
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