Ive heard that lion is crap, escpecially because microsoft is having issues. I have 2008 office currently running fine and want to know if i will have issues when i transfer to lion. Is there going to be a problem carrying over microsoft 2008 to lion?

I need microsoft big time. Should i wait to see updates or will there be no problems for me? Thanks!

No, Lion is not crap. Are there problems? Yes, any major
system update will have problems. As for Office, the biggest
complaints are coming from those people with Office 2004 or
earlier, since these were Power PC based apps. Lion no longer
supports any PPC apps. As far as I know, 2008 should be okay.
There may be some issues though anyway.
The dropping of PPC support was stated the day Lion was
announced as the next OSX. I guess people just chose to ignore
it or were living under a rock.

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