I den nyeste udgave af TidBits har jeg sakset følgende:
TidBITS#674/01-Apr-03
News abounds in this issue, with Apple again rescheduling WWDC and
TidBITS Publisher Adam Engst receiving a fellowship at Cornell
University. New products include heat-resistant Handeze gloves, a clever
anti-flaming plug-in for iChat, a Keynote-compatible Canon PowerShot
camera, the iPodPowerMate, and a kid-sized Segway. Adam also looks at a
new add-on product for the Xserve, Tonya breaks some welcome news about
Word 5.1, and we interview someone whose voice will be familiar to all
Macintosh owners.
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Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X
by Tonya Engst <tonya@tidbits.com>
I haven't written much for TidBITS lately, in part because I've been
busy helping some old friends at Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit
(MacBU) with an upcoming release of Microsoft Word 5.1 for OS X, a
carbonized version of Word 5.1a that preserves most of the features and
all the look and feel of the highly popular Word 5.1. A few external
beta testers - all former employees of the Macintosh Word Support Group
- have been working day and night to identify new bugs generated as part
of the carbonization process, and to focus programming efforts on the
most pesky of Word 5.1's old problems.
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http://www.microsoft.com/mac/word51X/>
The design goal for Word 5.1 for Mac OS X was to create a clean,
carbonized version that would run natively under Mac OS X with as few
changes from the original version as possible. After much gnashing of
teeth and pulling of hair, Microsoft decided to remove linking features
from the new version, citing little hope of clearing up existing bugs.
That means no more publish and subscribe, and no more OLE (Object
Linking and Embedding). Equation Editor and Microsoft Graph have been
incorporated into the main software program as mini-modules, so they no
longer rely on OLE to function, though Microsoft Graph has not been
updated and remains somewhat dysfunctional. Although Word 5.1 for Mac OS
X mimics the interface and appearance of its classic ancestor by
default, it does offer a new option in the Preferences dialog for
turning on an Aqua-style interface.
Following internal debate over the extent to which this release should
track the original, Microsoft also corrected a few design errors left
over from Word 5.1. For instance, tables can now print over a page
break, you can delete a footnote by deleting its number in the footnote
region, and rotated text is more likely to print smoothly. The ReadMe
file included with the software offers a complete list of changes.
Although I was a member of the old Macintosh Word Support Group, I
didn't do much beta testing. Instead, I've been revamping a book I wrote
back in 1993 - The Word Book for Macintosh Users - this time for
Microsoft Press. Microsoft has released the golden master to
manufacturing, so Word 5.1 for Mac OS X should be available for online
purchasing for $45 in early May. The only included documentation is
Balloon Help, but by late May, the new edition of The Word Book should
be on shelves, and the software will be bundled with the book for the
same price.
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http://www.tidbits.com/tonya/twb.html>
Word 5.1 for Mac OS X represents a credible job on MacBU's part to bring
Word 5.1 into this century, and I expect that many old-time Word users
will be happy to trade in the bells and whistles of newer versions for
the comfort of an older, more familiar, less-Windows-influenced piece of
software.
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Det må da siges at være en lidt udsædvanlig udvikling - nu mangler vi
bare Excel 2 og MacPaint ...
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Per Erik Rønne