Lion will be here soon!

[kareila]

I am amused - but in retrospect, not surprised - that a hot topic on Macintouch right now is migrating email from Eudora to something that will run under 10.7.

Does anyone here feel locked into any Rosetta apps? Any other thoughts on the new OS?

I am lazy and only have 10.6 running on my newest Mac which came with it preinstalled. My laptop is still running 10.5. I am interested in other people's experiences with upgrades, though!

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[roadrunnertwice]

I'll be needing a new spreadsheet when the ancient version of Excel that came with my old iBook conks out. I don't even LIKE Excel 2004, it's just that I've been waiting for the next version of Numbers before deciding whether to drop the dollars on the latest Office, and it's apparently not forthcoming.

There's always OpenOffice, but if there's one thing worse than a dog-slow seven-year-old Microsoft product running in an emulation layer, it's THAT.

[kareila]

Ha, I'm still running Excel 2004 too, although I've moved my simpler spreadsheets into Google Docs for convenience / iPad access.

It's not ancient until they stop releasing security updates for it! :)

[amadi]

I've been running that same version of Excel, I think, as well. I can live without Word, because I don't do anything in Word I can't do in Google Docs, but Docs spreadsheets are not as full-functioned as Excel.

And at the same time, I've never used Pages or Numbers and I have no idea how they compare, and I'm nervous to go wholesale to them.

[roadrunnertwice]

Yeah. I had to spend some major quality time with Excel 2007 at $oldjob, and was surprised at how far ahead of the competition it actually was. (For all its annoyances.)

Numbers '09 was promising, but kind of slow, and it seemed oddly print-focussed, whereas I think of spreadsheets as a mostly abstract medium. Apple tends to iterate impressively, so the next version could well rock, but it's taking its sweet time.