Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is a version of Microsoft Office developed for Mac OS X. It is equivalent to Office 2003 for Windows. The software was originally written for PowerPC Macs, so Macs with Intel CPUs must run the program under Mac OS X's Rosetta emulation layer. For this reason, it is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 and newer.
Screenshot of Microsoft Word 2004 on an Intel-based Mac in Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" through Rosetta | |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Initial release | May 11, 2004 |
| Final release | v11.6.6
/ December 13, 2011 |
| Predecessor | Microsoft Office v. X |
| Successor | Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac |
| License | Commercial proprietary software |
| Website | microsoft |
| System requirements | |
|---|---|
| CPU | PowerPC G3 or higher |
| Operating system | Mac OS X v10.2.8 through v10.6.8 |
| RAM | 256 MB |
| Free hard disk space | 450 MB |
Office 2004 was replaced by its successor, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, which was developed as a universal binary to run natively on Intel Macs. However, Office 2008 did not include support for Visual Basic for Applications, which made Microsoft extend the support period of Office 2004 from October 13, 2009, to January 10, 2012. Microsoft ultimately shipped support for Visual Basic in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, which also dropped PowerPC support altogether. Support for Office 2004 ended January 10, 2012.