On Sep 15, 2011, at 11:02, Bruce Walker wrote: > On 11-09-15 9:58 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Charles Robinson<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sep 14, 2011, at 21:55, steve harley wrote: >>>> without getting too detailed, i understand the problem with Office 2008 is >>>> that the _installer_ is PowerPC, but if it's already installed and you >>>> upgrade to Lion, it will run, though there are some issues >>>> >>> That is just funny. Srsly, Microsoft? >> I think Office 2008 also ran on PowerPC. So if you want to have a >> single installer that runs on either architecture, and PowerPC can >> only run PowerPC code, but Intel can (at the time) run both, their >> approach makes sense. > > Not really, because MacOS supports multi-architecture binaries that will run > on whatever you have. MS was just being slow/lazy. They could have easily > recompiled their installer with the latest dev kit to make it > dual-architecture. >
A so-called "universal binary". Yes, having installed software (Office for Mac 2008) be universal-binary, but the installer itself NOT be universal-binary was a dumbtastic decision. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
