RE: Upgrading to OSX from OS9??

2003-10-29 Thread Andy Dent
Greg Colgan asked about running Panther. Microsoft Office 98 - esp Word and Excel Nope. They may work for a while under Classic but are likely to eventually fail and when they do you can't get them going again (I had the problem under 10.2.6 and don't think there's anything in Panther likely to

Re: Upgrading to OSX from OS9??

2003-10-27 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Greg Colgan wrote: Naturally, all of our software is pre OSX and our major concern is that if we go out and buy the latest Panther-equipped macs (say a couple of emacs and a couple of laptops), will we be able to run out software? We can't

Re: Upgrading to OSX from OS9??

2003-10-27 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 27/10/03 8:05 AM, Peter Hinchliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a user of MacOS X since 10.0 I can only say that you will find yourself increasingly wanting to exist without Classic the more you use Panther. The desire to upgrade your apps will become overwhelming. Also as an early