In good news for previous owners and Windows users, Office 2004 is fully compatible with Office 98 Macintosh Edition or later and Office 97 for Windows or later. The package includes Microsoft Entourage, PowerPoint, Word, Excel and the latest version of MSN Messenger for Mac. If you're a Windows user you'll find this program as easy to use as ever - in fact, it is probably even more user friendly than the Windows versions. Well, Microsoft of all companies has provided at least some of this support with Office for Mac 2004, the latest version of the popular Windows Office Suite.
While most understand that Mac OS X provides a more stable and secure platform to work with than Windows, the fact of the matter is, most of the population use PCs and thus require some sort of interactivity between machines if they were to use a Macintosh. The biggest issue for both current Mac users and those who are considering 'turning to the dark side' is the lack of viable and compatible software for the Mac OS X operating system.