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Support for Windows 7 has ended. After 10 years, support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. We know change can be difficult, so we are here to help you with recommendations for what to do next and to answer questions about end of support. Microsoft will end support for Office 2004 on October 13, 2009. The company will still update Office 2008 and is working on the next version of Office for Mac. Office for Mac 2011, like most Microsoft products, has a support lifecycle during which we provide new features, bug fixes, security fixes, and so on. This lifecycle typically lasts for 5 years from the date of the product’s initial release. The speedy retirement of Office for Mac 2008 is not new: Users faced the same five-year support lifespan for Office for Mac 2004, which was shut down in January 2012. Support for Office 2010 will end on October 13, 2020. All of your Office 2010 apps will continue to function. However, you could expose yourself to serious and potentially harmful security risks. Upgrade to a newer version of Office.

End Of Life – Microsoft Windows and Office. Microsoft has a support lifetime for each of their products. Below is a list of software that has or soon will reach its end of life and support. You should not run software that is not supported, since it may contain security issues that are not fixed and can put your computer and information at risk.

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Officeproductivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac (which did not have Intel native code) and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007. Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008. Office 2008 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 released on October 26, 2010, requiring a Mac with an Intel processor and Mac OS version 10.5 or better. Office 2008 is also the last version to feature Entourage, which was replaced by Outlook in Office 2011. Microsoft stopped supporting Office 2008 on April 9, 2013.

Release[edit]

Office 2008 was originally slated for release in the second half of 2007; however, it was delayed until January 2008, purportedly to allow time to fix lingering bugs.^[3] Office 2008 is the only version of Office for Mac supplied as a Universal Binary.

Unlike Office 2007 for Windows, Office 2008 was not offered as a public beta before its scheduled release date.^[4]

Features[edit]

Office 2008 for Mac includes the same core programs currently included with Office 2004 for Mac: Entourage, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

Mac-only features included are a publishing layout view, which offers functionality similar to Microsoft Publisher for Windows, a 'Ledger Sheet mode' in Excel to ease financial tasks, and a 'My Day' application offering a quick way to view the day's events.^[5]

Office 2008 supports the new Office Open XML format, and defaults to saving all files in this format. On February 21, 2008 Geoff Price revealed that the format conversion update for Office 2004 would be delayed until June 2008 in order to provide the first update to Office 2008.^[6]

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications is not supported in this version.^[7] As a result, such Excel add-ins dependent on VBA, such as Solver, have not been bundled in the current release.^[8] In June 2008, Microsoft announced that it is exploring the idea of bringing some of the functionality of Solver back to Excel.^[9] In late August 2008, Microsoft announced that a new Solver for Excel 2008 was available as a free download from Frontline Systems, original developers of the Excel Solver.^[10][11] However, Excel 2008 also lacks other functionality, such as Pivot Chart functionality, which has long been a feature in the Windows version. In May 2008, Microsoft announced that VBA will be making a return in the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac.^[12]AppleScript and the Open Scripting Architecture will still be supported.

Limitations[edit]

Office 2008 for Mac lacks feature parity with the Windows version. The lack of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support in Excel makes it impossible to use macros programmed in VBA. Microsoft's response is that adding VBA support in Xcode would have resulted in an additional two years added to the development cycle of Office 2008.^[13] Other unsupported features include: OMML equations generated in Word 2007 for Windows,^[14] Office 'Ribbon', Mini Toolbar, Live Preview, and an extensive list of features are unsupported such as equivalent SharePoint integration with the Windows version. Some features are missing on Excel 2008 for Mac, including: data filters (Data Bars, Top 10, Color-based, Icon-based), structured references, Excel tables, Table styles, a sort feature allowing more than three columns at once and more than one filter on a sort.

Benchmarks suggest that the original release of Office 2008 runs slower on Macs with PowerPC processors, and does not provide a significant speed bump for Macs with Intel processors.^[15]

A using a program to remove application support files in unwanted languages), and which do not affect Office's operations, but which cause the updaters' installers to believe that the application is not valid for update. A small modification to the installer has been found an effective work-around (see reference).^[18]

Another widespread problem reported after SP1 is that Office files will no longer open in Office applications when opened (double-clicked) from the Mac OS X Finder or launched from other applications such as an email attachment. The trigger for this problem is that Microsoft in SP1 unilaterally and without warning deprecated certain older Mac OS 'Type' codes such as 'WDBN' that some files may have, either because they are simply very old, or because some applications assign the older Type code when saving them to the disk. Users have seen the problem affect even relatively new Type codes, however, such as 'W6BN'. Microsoft is apparently looking into the problem, but it is unclear if they will reinstate the older Type codes, citing security concerns.^[19]

Another problem with cross-platform compatibility is that images inserted into any Office application by using either cut and paste or drag and drop result in a file that does not display the inserted graphic when viewed on a Windows machine. Instead, the Windows user is told 'QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture'. A user presented one solution as far back as December 2004.^[20]

A further example of the lack of feature parity is the track changes function. Whereas users of Word 2003 or 2007 for Windows are able to choose freely between showing their changes in-line or as balloons in the right-hand margin,^[21][22] choosing the former option in Word 2004 or Word 2008 for Mac OS also turns off all comment balloons; comments in this case are visible only in the Reviewing Pane or as popup boxes (i.e. upon mouseover).^[23] This issue has not been resolved to date and is present in the latest version of Word for the Mac, namely Word 2011.^[24]

The toolbox found in Office 2008 also has problems when the OS X feature Spaces is used: switching from one Space to another will cause elements of the Toolbox to get trapped on one Space until the Toolbox is closed and reopened. The only remedy for this problem is to currently disable Spaces, or at least refrain from using it whilst working in Office 2008.^[25] Microsoft has acknowledged this problem and states that it is an architectural problem with the implementation of Spaces. Apple has been informed of the problem, according to Microsoft.^[26] The problem appears to be caused by the fact that the Toolbox is Carbon-based.^{[citation needed]} Using Microsoft Office with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard solves some of the problems.^[26]

In addition, there is no support for right to left and bidirectional languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc.) in Office 2008,^[27][28] making it impossible to read or edit a right to left document in Word 2008 or PowerPoint 2008. Languages such as Thai are similarly not supported, although installing fonts can sometimes allow documents written in these languages to be displayed.

Moreover, Office 2008 proofing tools support only a limited number of languages (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Swiss German).^[29] Proofing tools for other languages failed to find their way to the installation pack, and are not offered by Microsoft commercially in the form of separately sold language packs. At the same time, Office applications are not integrated with the proofing tools native to Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard.

Microsoft Visio is not available for OS X. This means that any embedded Visio diagrams in other Office documents (e.g. Word) cannot be edited in Office on the Mac. Embedded Visio diagrams appear as a low-quality bitmap both in the WYSIWYG editor and upon printing the document on the Mac.

Editions[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Microsoft Support Lifecycle - Office 2008'. Microsoft. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
2. ^'Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Specs'. CNET. January 15, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
3. ^'It's Coming: Mac BU Announces Intent to Deliver Office 2008 for Mac'. Microsoft. January 9, 2007. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007.
4. ^'Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac delayed until January 2008'. TUAW. August 2, 2007.
5. ^'Microsoft starts testing Office 2008 for Mac'. Cnet. April 2, 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2007.
6. ^'MS Office Mac Discussion Board'. January 15, 2008.
7. ^'Saying goodbye to Visual Basic'. August 8, 2006.
8. ^'MS Office Mac Discussion Board'. January 15, 2008.
9. ^'Excel 2008 and Solver'. June 26, 2008.
10. ^'Solver For Excel 2008 Is Available'. August 29, 2008.
11. ^'Solver is Back for Microsoft Excel 2008 on Macintosh'. August 29, 2008.
12. ^'Microsoft Office Update, and Visual Basic for Applications to Return - Mac Rumors'. May 13, 2008.
13. ^'MS Mactopia Blog'. March 13, 2008.
14. ^Known issues in Word 2008 – Equations saved from Word 2007 for Windows do not appear in Word 2008 for Mac
15. ^'MS Mactopia Blog'. March 13, 2008.
16. ^'CambridgeSoft Website'.
17. ^New installer for 12.0.1 (The Entourage Help Blog)
18. ^MacFixit article: More Fixes for Problems InstallingArchived January 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
19. ^http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?target=0b9aa757-50ab-443b-8b0e-3a50ece1d5451033&clr=99-4-0
20. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
21. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on July 2, 2009. Retrieved July 9, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
22. ^'IT training – IT training – IT Services – Administrative and academic support divisions – Services and divisions – Staff and students – Home'. Ittraining.lse.ac.uk. May 7, 2010. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
23. ^[1]^{[dead link]}
24. ^http://officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Word/11634/0
25. ^Bugs & Fixes: Office 2008 and Leopard’s Spaces don’t mix, Macworld, December 8, 2008
26. ^ ^abOffice 2008 for Mac and Mac OS X Spaces, Microsoft
27. ^Help and How-To for Microsoft for Mac Office Products Mactopia
28. ^Higgaion » It’s official: no RTL support in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
29. ^Proofing tools that are available for each language

External links[edit]

• MacBU interview: Office 2008 Exchange Server support^{[permanent dead link]}

The Exchange Server supportability matrix provides a central source for Exchange administrators to easily locate information about the level of support available for any configuration or required component for supported versions of Microsoft Exchange Server.

Release model

The following table identifies the release model for each supported version of Exchange.

In Exchange Server 2010 and earlier, each update rollup package (RU) is cumulative. An RU for Exchange Server 2010 includes all fixes for Exchange Server from all previous update rollup packages, so you only need to install the latest RU to apply all of the fixes that were released up to that point. However, individual updates or hotfixes for Exchange 2010 or earlier do not contain all previous fixes for Exchange Server. The updated files that are included in an individual update or hotfix include all updates that were applied only to those specific files by all previous updates, but any other files on Exchange Server will not be updated. For more information, see Exchange 2010 Servicing.

In Exchange Server 2013 or later, we changed the way we deliver hotfixes and service packs by using a scheduled delivery model. In this model, cumulative updates (CUs) are released quarterly (every three months). Each CU is a full installation of Exchange that includes updates and changes from all previous CUs, so you don't need to install any previous CUs or Exchange Server RTM first. For more information, see Updates for Exchange Server.

Note

At this time, no additional CUs are planned for Exchange Server 2013 and no additional RUs are planned for Exchange Server 2010.

Support lifecycle

For more information about the support lifecycle for specific versions of Exchange, Windows Server, or Windows client operating systems, see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle page. For more information about the Microsoft Support Lifecycle, see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy FAQ.

Exchange Server 2007 End-of life

Exchange 2007 reached end of support on April 11, 2017, per the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy. There will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content updates. Furthermore, as adoption of Office 365 accelerates and cloud usage increases, custom support options for Office products will not be available. This includes Exchange Server, as well as Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server, Office Communications Server, Lync Server, Skype for Business Server, Project Server, and Visio. At this time, we encourage customers to complete their migration and upgrade plans. We recommend that customers leverage deployment benefits provided by Microsoft and Microsoft Certified Partners including Microsoft FastTrack for cloud migrations, and Software Assurance Planning Services for on-premises upgrades.

Supported operating system platforms

The following tables identify the operating system platforms on which each version of Exchange can run.

Important

Releases of Windows Server and Windows client that aren't listed in the tables below are not supported for use with any version or release of Exchange.

Note

Client operating systems only support the Exchange management tools.

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Supported Active Directory environments

The following table identifies the Active Directory environments that Exchange can communicate with. An Active Directory server refers to both writable global catalog servers and to writable domain controllers. Read-only global catalog servers and read-only domain controllers are not supported.

Web browsers supported for use with the premium version of Outlook Web App or Outlook on the web

The following table identifies the web browsers supported for use together with the premium version of Outlook Web App or Outlook on the web.

^* Current release of Firefox or Chrome refers to the latest version or the immediately previous version.

Web browsers supported for use with the basic version of Outlook Web App or Outlook on the web

The following table identifies the web browsers supported for use together with the light (basic) version of Outlook Web App or Outlook on the web.

Note

Outlook Web App Basic (Outlook Web App Light) is supported for use in mobile browsers. However, if rendering or authentication issues occur in a mobile browser, determine whether the issue can be reproduced by using Outlook Web App Light in the full client of a supported browser. For example, test the use of Outlook Web App Light in Safari, Chrome, or Internet Explorer. If the issue can't be reproduced in the full client, we recommend that you contact the mobile device vendor for help. In these cases, we collaborate with the vendor as appropriate.

^* Current release of Firefox or Chrome refers to the latest version or the immediately previous version.

Web browsers supported for use of S/MIME with Outlook Web App or Outlook on the web

The following table identifies the web browsers supported for the use of S/MIME together with Outlook Web App or Outlook on the web.

Clients

The following tables identify the mail clients that are supported for use together with each version of Exchange.

¹ Requires the latest Office service pack and the latest public update.

² Requires Outlook 2010 Service Pack 1 and the latest public update.

³ Requires Outlook 2007 Service Pack 3 and the latest public update.

⁴ EWS only. There is no DAV support for Exchange 2010.

Microsoft .NET Framework

The following tables identify the versions of the Microsoft .NET Framework that can be used with the specified versions of Exchange.

Important

It is important to determine whether the document is damaged or whether the problem is a software issue. To eliminate these other factors, follow these steps:.

Versions of the .NET Framework that aren't listed in the tables below are not supported on any version of Exchange. This includes minor and patch-level releases of the .NET Framework.

If you are upgrading Exchange Server from an unsupported CU to the current CU and no intermediate CUs are available, you should first upgrade to the latest version of .NET that's supported by your version of Exchange Server and then immediately upgrade to the current CU. This method doesn't replace the need to keep your Exchange servers up to date and on the latest supported CU. Microsoft makes no claim that an upgrade failure will not occur using this method, which may result in the need to contact Microsoft Support Services.

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Exchange 2016

^* .NET Framework 4.6.1 also requires a hotfix, and a different hotfix is required for different versions of Windows. For more information, see Released: June 2016 Quarterly Exchange Updates.

Exchange 2013

^* .NET Framework 4.6.1 also requires a hotfix, and a different hotfix is required for different versions of Windows. For more information, see Released: June 2016 Quarterly Exchange Updates.

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Exchange 2010 SP3

¹ On Windows Server 2012, you need to install the .NET Framework 3.5 before you can use Exchange 2010 SP3.

² Exchange 2010 uses only the .NET Framework 3.5 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 libraries. It doesn't use the .NET Framework 4.5 libraries if they're installed on the server. We support the installation of any version of the .NET Framework 4.5 (for example, .NET Framework 4.5.1, .NET Framework 4.5.2, etc.) as long as the .NET Framework 3.5 or the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is also installed on the server.

Windows PowerShell

• Exchange 2013 or later requires the version of Windows PowerShell that's included in Windows (unless otherwise specified by an Exchange Setup-enforced prerequisite rule).

• Exchange 2010 requires Windows PowerShell 2.0 on all supported versions of Windows.

• Exchange does not support the use of Windows Management Framework add-ons on any version of Windows PowerShell or Windows. If there are other installed versions of Windows PowerShell that support side-by-side operation, Exchange will use only the version that it requires.

Microsoft Management Console

The following table identifies the version of Microsoft Management Console (MMC) that can be used together with each version of Exchange.

Windows Installer

The following table identifies the version of Windows Installer that is used together with each version of Exchange.