On 10/14/09 10:41 AM, "Roger S. Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm OK with MS Office 2004. Is there any advantage to my switching to > Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition? There's a bug, apparently in Rosetta (the code that permits PowerPC code processes to run on Intel processors) that has bitten a fairly large number of Snow Leopard users. It apparently involves the routines that paint the computer monitor screen, so it's acquired the name "Windowserver crash bug." What happens is that suddenly your screen goes blank, and then the Mac account login screen reappears. Anything that hadn't been saved by open applications at the time of the crash is lost. Turns out this was present in Leopard as well. Apple has acknowledged the bug's existence and says they're working to isolate and fix it, but its existence may be an argument for trying to expunge legacy PowerPC apps from your computing environment. I remember seeing a few reports from users who say they could actually make this crash occur using Excel 2004, but I didn't archive those reports, so my report of their report is as reliable as my 62 year old brain... It happened to me once using Leopard. It was so sudden and unexpected that I can't remember what I was doing at the moment. I've not been whacked by it (yet) in Snow Leopard. I have no idea whether that's because I've updated to Office 2008. I do still run a few PowerPC apps. Jim Robertson -- -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
