Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition
Developer	Microsoft
Type	Office suite
Release date	April 21, 1998
Discontinued	June 30, 2003
Latest release version	Service Release 5 November 29, 2002
Operating system	MacOS
Licensing	Commercial proprietary software
Preceded by	Microsoft Office 4.2 for Macintosh (1994)
Succeeded by	Microsoft Office 2001 (2000)

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition is a version of Microsoft Office for the classic Mac OS, unveiled at Macworld Expo/San Francisco on January 6, 1998. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 4.2 for Macintosh and is comparable to Microsoft Office 97.

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition introduced the Internet Explorer 4.0 web browser and Outlook Express, an Internet e-mail client and usenet newsgroup reader. Office 98 was re-engineered by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit to satisfy customers' desire for more Mac-like software.

Features

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition includes drag-and-drop installation, self-repairing applications, and Quick Thesaurus; these were included before such features were available in a version of Office for Windows. It also was the first version to support QuickTime movies. The applications in Microsoft Office 98 are:

• Microsoft PowerPoint 98
• Microsoft Word 98
• Microsoft Excel 98
• Outlook Express 4.0
• Internet Explorer 4.0

Aside from the standard version of Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition, another variant was released titled: "Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Gold Edition". This version included all features from the standard version, plus Microsoft FrontPage Version 1.0 for Macintosh, Microsoft Bookshelf 98 reference software, and Microsoft Encarta 98 Macintosh Deluxe Edition.

Service releases

Office 98 Mac service releases

Release date	Version
December 12, 1998	SR-1
March 11, 1999	SR-1.5
June 14, 1999	SR-1.9
February 17, 2000	SR-2
September 14, 2000	SR-2.5
June 15, 2001	SR-3
May 17, 2002	SR-4
November 29, 2002	SR-5

System requirements

• A Mac OS-compatible computer equipped with a PowerPC processor.
• System 7.5 operating system or later.
• At least 16 MB of physical RAM to run one application, 32 MB recommended to run multiple applications.
• Sufficient hard disk space, depending on installation method: 'Drag and drop' or 'Easy' (90 MB), 'Complete' (min. 43 MB to max. 110 MB) or 'Run from CD or Run from network' (7 MB on the client hard disk).
• One CD-ROM drive.
• An 8-bit color or 4-bit grayscale display with at least 640 × 400 resolution.

External links

• Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition at Microsoft (archived 1999-02-19)
• Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition at Wikipedia