Because there are a lot of legacy addons for Office that haven't been compiled for x64 Office. They will not work together (inProc calls)
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Katherine Moss <katherine.m...@gordon.edu>wrote: > Oh funny. But in light of what somebody said about Office, why do you > recommend 32 bit office on a 64 bit platform? I don’t get that. And > before today, I had never heard of it before. I’m in the market for Office > 2013, so which to get and why? I’d rather go for the 64 bit version, but > if that’s going to cause headaches for me later, then oh well. **** > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Kean > *Sent:* Friday, May 10, 2013 12:44 PM > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* RE: Is Surface really failing?**** > > ** ** > > What makes you say it’s not “Google”? **** > > ** ** > > Try searching for something obscure a lot of on Google (say door handles), > notice that YouTube will showing you ads related to it. **** > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ > mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] *On > Behalf Of *Katherine Moss > *Sent:* Friday, May 10, 2013 9:25 AM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* RE: Is Surface really failing?**** > > ** ** > > I don’t trust anything with the name “Google” in it. All data miners who > need to be put down. I watch and upload to YouTube because YouTube is > owned by google, but it’s not Google. **** > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ > mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] *On > Behalf Of *David Connors > *Sent:* Friday, May 10, 2013 1:58 AM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Is Surface really failing?**** > > ** ** > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> > wrote:**** > > I've stopped installing office on my machines now for some years. On the > odd occasion I do need to access a document of some kind, I put it in my > Google drive and open it in Google docs. It even gives me a nice way to > save as PDF if I need to. **** > > My work machines usually have office as part of the SOE so use whatever is > installed. So my personal usage of Office is pretty much zero. **** > > ** ** > > I use Office all the time at Codify. Every plan, doc, report, etc is > heavily invested in office. I can't imagine putting together a 100 page > report full of cross-references and stuff in anything other than Word.**** > > ** ** > > Google Docs is still a bit shit for things like vector graphics (PDFs end > up with bitmaps in them) and the presentations they generate are horrible > last time I checked.**** > > ** ** > > Google Spreadsheets is very, very solid though. I am constantly amazed by > it. **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
