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Ray6

MS will bundle a copy Parallels Desktop with the Expression Professional subscription, which will allow folk to run it on their Macs.

Not really earth-shattering news, but I wonder if this is how Microsoft intends to get around rewriting MS Office for the Mac?

'Rewrite it in Cocoa? No thanks Stevey-lad, we'll just bundle virtualisation software with the Windows version.'

andokai

Do you mean all the extra bits that aren't in Microsoft Office for Mac 2008?

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

andokai wrote:

Do you mean all the extra bits that aren't in Microsoft Office for Mac 2008?

I think he means in case Apple decides to abandon 32-bit support in Mac OS X, and therefore Carbon, sometime in the distant future.

Xaero_Vincent
Sexy me

Thats not supporting the Mac.

Its saying... hey you can run our apps but only if you use Windows in a VM.

That can be done in any OS.

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

Xaero_Vincent wrote:
Thats not supporting the Mac.

Its saying... hey you can run our apps but only if you use Windows in a VM.

That can be done in any OS.

Yes but MS are providing the software to do that free of charge - so it may not be supporting osx, but it itsn't nothing either.

Ray6

DCMonkey wrote:

andokai wrote:
Do you mean all the extra bits that aren't in Microsoft Office for Mac 2008?

I think he means in case Apple decides to abandon 32-bit support in Mac OS X, and therefore Carbon, sometime in the distant future.

The problem with Apple is that the 'distant future' comes around surprisingly quickly.

They even released a 64-bit Carbon beta to developers before they decided they couldn't do it ....