Office Comes to OS X Billings MT
Office Comes to OS X
Posted by : Dennis Sellers Mac Advisorhed: Office comes to OS Xdek: yes, there's another new version of Office for the Mac. this one is worth it.by Dennis Sellers
Not counting Apple's own Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, the two most anticipated native applications for Mac OS X have been Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop.
The Mac OS X version of Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and DVD Studio are still in the works. Don't hold your breath expecting to see them before January. However, Microsoft Office for Mac OS X--dubbed, appropriately, Office X--is here now. And though many Mac fans are understandably averse to Microsoft products, it's an excellent (and very Mac-like) suite of products.
Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) claims it didn't merely port Office to Mac OS X, but instead completely re-architected the product with 25 million lines of code, 50 shared libraries, 8,257 files, and 800 dialog boxes. What's more, there are 700 new Aquafied toolboxes (Aqua is Mac OS X's user interface). All this work shows, because Office X is gorgeous to behold.
But it doesn't just look pretty. It takes advantage of the operating system's powerful features, including the following:
Office X adds functionality for Sheets (which give users an immediate visual connection between a dialog box and the respective document it affects); Quartz 2D drawing technology; Carbon Events Framework (which lets Mac OS X run applications as efficiently as possible); Native Mac O...Click here to read the rest of this article from Computer User