Is it possible to access Office Live from a Mac?

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pmingle@gmail.com - 04 May 2007 06:39 GMT

Does anyone know if it is possible to access Microsoft Office Live
from a Mac? I am told that the major stumbling block is that Office
Live (Microsoft) calls for or sends ActiveX controls which are not
available on most of the Mac browsers. Do you know of a workaround
other than running PC virualization software on the Mac? Thanks.

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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 04 May 2007 22:29 GMT

> Does anyone know if it is possible to access Microsoft Office Live
> from a Mac?

I don't believe it is.
Their server says:

> In order to use Microsoft Office Live, you will need to have Microsoft
> Internet Explorer 6 or later running on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows
> XP, Windows Vista, or Microsoft Windows Server 2003. You can download
> the latest version of Internet Explorer from the Internet Explorer
> downloads page.

I suspect they heavily rely on ActiveX indeed and we have no way around
that.

Corentin

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Ian_ - 22 May 2007 22:15 GMT

Corentin Cras-Méneur wrote on 4/5/2007 10:29 pm:

> <pmingle> wrote:
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> Corentin

Unless you use some sort of virtualisation, Parallels, then use Win IE6?

HTH, &B-) Ian
(false address), please reply to newsgroup!

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> Unless you use some sort of virtualisation, Parallels, then use Win

IE6?

Well of course. With either Parallels or VPC or anything like that you
could use Win:IE.
Corentin

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Is it possible to access Office Live from a Mac?