The Lion comes tomorrow (RAWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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not gonna upgrade because Lion (MacOS X 10.7) drops support for PowerPC applications, like Office 2004.

Maybe gonna upgrade if I can get MS Word 2011 cheaply in the app store.

[guyguy]

You can get MS Office Student and Home Edition for less than $100 USD if you are a Student.

I won't be upgrading though but will wait until the end of the year. Lion will support all of my apps since they're 64 bit already.

[Sirius]

You can get MS Office Student and Home Edition for less than $100 USD if you are a Student.

I won't be upgrading though but will wait until the end of the year. Lion will support all of my apps since they're 64 bit already.

Unfortunately Student and Home does not include Outlook, which can be a problem for business users. I also don't know why there's still no Mac edition of Access...

[guyguy]

Unfortunately Student and Home does not include Outlook, which can be a problem for business users. I also don't know why there's still no Mac edition of Access...

No need for Outlook since Macs come with Mail, and no need for Access either since the database of choice, and easiest to use, for Macs is Filemaker.

[Sirius]

No need for Outlook since Macs come with Mail, and no need for Access either since the database of choice, and easiest to use, for Macs is Filemaker.

For home use yes, but in an office environment where Access and Exchange are the order of the day, Microsoft is shortchanging the Mac community by providing Office without those two core applications.

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As if all of this isn't enough, Lion features one final application management twist. When an application is terminated in Lion, all the usual things appear to happen. If the running application indicator is enabled, the small dot will disappear from beneath the application's Dock icon. Assuming it's not a permanent resident, the application icon will disappear from the Dock. The application will no longer appear in the command-tab application switcher, or in Mission Control. You might therefore conclude that this application's process has terminated.

A quick trip to the Activity Monitor application or the "ps" command-line utility may dissuade you of that notion. Lion reserves the right to keep an application's process around just in case the user decides to relaunch it. Upon relaunch, the application appears to start up instantly—because it was never actually terminated, but was simply removed from all parts of the GUI normally occupied by running applications.

That's right, gentle readers. In Lion, an ostensibly "running" application may have no associated process (because the operating system automatically terminated it in order to reclaim resources) and an application may have a process even when it doesn't appear to be running. Applications without processes. Processes without applications. Did Lion just blow your mind?

wow

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews...-os-x-10-7.ars

[BW]

If you were flipping out over the document changes described in the previous section, buckle up, because the discomfort level is about to rise yet again.

One of the first things experienced Mac OS X users will notice upon first using Lion is that running applications no longer have a dot below them in the Dock. But in the default configuration, the one that the vast majority of users will never alter, all applications in the Dock look exactly the same in Lion, running or otherwise. Apple's message with this change is a simple one, but also one that the nerdly mind rebels against: "It doesn't matter if an application is running or not. You shouldn't care. Stop thinking about it." Geek panic!

[guyguy]

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-mac-tools-student/

http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-mac-apps#content