Uploaded Mtn Lion, Lost Microsoft Office. Now they want me to buy it again? Anyone else have this experience/solution?
My Microsoft Office Suite required an "upgrade" which cost exactly what the original price of the software was. The message came to me immediately after uploading Mountain Lion. Is this standard operating proceedure for Mountain Lion?
BTW, I am located in Mongolia and cannot access the "upgrade" required from here, so have effectively lost a sizable amount of software with Mountain Lion.
stevenfrombrownsburg wrote:?
but I can tell you that it's pretty standard for Microshaft to squeeze everything they possibly can out of you.
What? That's crazy.
In 2005 Apple annouced they would be transitioning from IBM's PowerPC processors (G3, G4,G5) to chips manufactured by Intel for their Mac line. This was a huge decision. Huge, for both users and developers, but necessary to take advantage of the best and fastest processors available for both customers and developers.
Apple continued to maintain compatibility for apps written for the IBM chips for years with Rosetta and other technologies. But eventually the time came to make a clean break in order to keep the Mac platform moving forward without the excess baggage necessary for backward compatibility.
That time was with the launch of Lion OS X 10.7 last year and continuing with Mountain Lion OS X 10.8. No secret was made of this to developers.
Versions of Office prior to Office 2008 were written for the PowerPC processor.
So, for better or worse, if you want to run the latest Mac operating system, you also have to be running the latest versions of your favorite software.
There is no conspiracy. The writing's been on the wall for years.
Matt
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