Microsoft has released a new version of Word 98 that is specially programmed for iMacs and iBooks. Here’s the verdict: MS Word 98 SE iMac/iBook is faster than MS Word 98 and includes many cool new features. There are so many new features that I can only list a few of them here.
- Greeting card templates with sample paper
- 5,000 clip-art images
- Microsoft IE 4.5 and MS Outlook Express 4.5
- Movie/Web/Picture/PowerBook toolbars
- Webpage Wizard
- Visual Basic scripting/programming language
- Better Mac to PC / PC to Mac file conversions
- Improved Spellchecking and AutoCorrect
- Italics are clearly distinguishable now
- Work Menu feature – saves list of recently created documents
System Requirements
- Apple iMac or iBook computer
- Apple Mac OS System 7.5 or later; System 7.5.5 or later recommended
- 16MB of RAM
- Approximately 69 MB of available hard drive space
- CD-ROM drive (or connection to a Local Area Network if installing over network)
- Monitor or display supporting 16 grays or 256 colors, or higher, with 640 X 400 or higher resolution
This is probably the best word-processing software you can get on a Mac. It’s feature-packed, but not at the cost of performance, and it has all sorts of nice extras that go beyond the basic word processor. This is blasphemy, but Microsoft has done a good job with this version of Word 98 and I would highly recommend it to any Mac user. 5 thunderbolts out of 5.