Microsoft Office v. X

Microsoft Office v. X

Microsoft Office v. X is a version of theMicrosoft Office productivity suite released forMac OS X. It is the successor toMicrosoft Office 2001 and is comparable toMicrosoft Office XP. It was announced byMicrosoft on September 19, 2001.^[1] It was released to manufacturing on October 24, 2001, and became available through retail stores on November 19, 2001.^[2][3]

As it was the first version to be developed specifically for the Mac OS X operating system, Microsoft Office v. X is not backward compatible withMac OS 9.^[4] Support for Office v. X ended on January 9, 2007, after the release of the final update, 10.1.9.

Description[]

Included software[]

Office v.X includesWord X,Excel X,PowerPoint X,Entourage X, MSN Messenger for Mac and Windows Media Player 9 for Mac; it was the last version of Office for Mac to include Internet Explorer for Mac.^[5]

System requirements[]

• PowerPC G3 processor with support for Mac OS X.
• Mac OS X 10.1 to10.5.8 (up to10.6.8 withRosetta).
• 128 MB ofRAM.
• 196 MB of available drive space.
• CD-ROM drive or network connection.
• 800 x 600 or larger display with support for at least 256 colors.^[6]

References[]

External links[]

• Office v. X for Mac at Microsoft (archived 2001-11-10)
  • What's new in Office v. X (archived 2001-11-09)
• Microsoft Office v. X at Wikipedia