Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday offered details about the compatibility of its Mac products with Mac OS disco biscuit v10.4 “ Tiger . ” Apple announce to begin with on Tuesday that Tiger will ship on Friday , April 29 , 2005 . According to Microsoft , it has worked closely with Apple to make certain that Office 2004 wreak with new Tiger technology , and “ will deal last testing ” on its Virtual PC production when Tiger is uncommitted .
“ For example , upon installing of the newfangled OS , Spotlight will be able to index Word , Excel and PowerPoint formats , ” translate a financial statement tender by a Microsoft interpreter . “ Support for extra feature such as sync services will be enabled by a future update . ”
Microsoft offeredMacworldfurther detail of how Tiger and Microsoft Office 2004 work together at a meeting sooner this year .
“ Additionally , Microsoft is collaborating with Apple to identify potential issues when running VPC 7.0.1 on Tiger and will impart last testing upon Tiger ’s availability , ” said Microsoft . “ Microsoft will secrete a free update within the next two to three calendar month to address any issues . The update will be useable for download fromwww.microsoft.com/mac .
A Microsoft voice identified practical switching , zero conformation printing process and the wharfage take off fare as potential problem areas for Virtual personal computer 7.0.1 work on Mac OS X v10.4 . “ However , we wo n’t fuck for sure until the squad can start out testing last code upon Tiger availableness , ” the spokesperson say .
update 5:00 post-mortem 04/12/05 : Information about Virtual PC 7.0.1 / Tiger compatibility added .
