Just something idiotic I wanted to share.
I rolled off a book project with a tight deadline right into a video project with an even tighter deadline, so I don’t really have time to blog, share new articles here, or even tweet. But I did run across this the other day while I was installing Microsoft Office 2008 on my 13-inch iMac running Snow Leopard:
Yes, the Office 2008 installer requires Rosetta to run. Office 2008 doesn’t need Rosetta. Just the installer does.
Hello? Microsoft? You want to make your installer compatible with current hardware and software?
It’s actually worse than that. After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I tried to run a merge between .docx and .xslx files on my computer and was prompted to install Rosetta in order to work with the OpenXML converter. Very annoying.
Liz: Agreed. That is worse. When will Microsoft get with the program, I wonder?