At the San Francisco launch of Office:Mac 3001 at CompUSA in October, it was
announced that we are very hard at work on Office:Mac for OS X.
This article does a pretty good job of summarizing the rest:
http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2639599-2,00.html
On 12/22/00 7:43 AM, "Word.Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 12/21/00 12:37 AM, Omar Shahine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>> Entourage and Office certainly constitute mainstream software. Thus the
>>> question still stands.
>>
>> Contrary to what Apple may say, OS X is not "developer complete". It is
>> incomplete and changes are still happening. It is next to impossible to
>> develop and carbonize an application or set of applications with the
sheer
>> magnitude of Office and expect it to pop-up right after the OS ships.
>>
>> -Omar
>
> Omar (and others on the Office development team),
>
> I think we all appreciate that it is difficult to develop and carbonize
> large application suites such as Office 200x. The question being asked is
> "Is this process underway?"
>
> Even though OS X is not "developer complete", several large, complex apps
> are already headed that direction. Intuit snuck in a commercial release
of
> a Carbonized Quicken 2001 (which must have a lot of legacy code), without
> even letting most folks know about it. The new Oni demo released today
> (from a pre-MS Bungie) is Carbonized for MacOS X. And of course MS
Internet
> Explorer is already there. So even though it is "next to impossible" with
> large applications, some developers are already doing it.
>
> There have been rumors online that since Office has so many proprietary MS
> tweaks in it, that it will NOT be carbonized at all, and instead something
> new (such as a Cocoa based suite?) will be developed from scratch. Any
> truth to these rumors?
>
> Even the most hardcore optimistic Mac user on the list can hardly expect a
> MacOS X version of Office in Spring 2001. What we're wondering is can we
> expect it in 2001 at all? Are there programmers allocated to the
> carbonization process, or is it yet to even be considered? Any idea on
> timeframe?
>
> Thanks for any insight you can provide.
>
> =Dave Holst
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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