Microsoft Office and Mac

[drdsgolf]

Now that I have my new Macbook up and running and Parallels running as well, I am able to drag Word documents onto the Windows desktop and open them and return them to Mac. Is there any reason to install Microsoft Office directly in Windows (I own a couple of copies).

 

[darkone]

not really.. in 3.0 you'll be able to launch Office Mac directly by double clicking on the files in your windows VM if you so wish.

 

[sparker]

So how do I turn this off? I have Office on the Mac and that's where I want to open .doc files. I can't find this in any Parallels preferences (it hijacked .doc and forces them to open in a Windows Word rather than Mac Office).

TIA for advice, Steve

 

[mmischke]

Now that I have my new Macbook up and running and Parallels running as well, I am able to drag Word documents onto the Windows desktop and open them and return them to Mac. Is there any reason to install Microsoft Office directly in Windows (I own a couple of copies).

I find that Office 2003 on virtualized XP is a lot faster than Office 2004 on OS X. 2004 runs under Rosetta PPC emulation and has always felt sluggish to me. I'm looking forward to Office 2008, which will be a Universal binary.