

I will not go back to Word or Excel because iWork with Pages and Numbers has all you need when you are a normal Office user. About Microsoft Word: I recently switched from Microsoft Word and Office to iWork'09 which is a great Office Package that comes with Pages, Numbers and Keynote (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) for a nice price of $79. †Refinements in Mac OS X Snow Leopard are listed on Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard 'What's New?'. Some examples of these are VMWare Fusion, and Parallels.

ONYX FOR MAC OS X 10.5 UPDATE
Run a VM and when prompted to upgrade hardware compatibility do so and then once at the Windows Desktop VMware Tools should automatically be updated to the latest version however if it doesn't update automatically then do it manually.

Finally, you can look into virtualization software. Also you can use OS X's Boot Camp feature if you would like to run Word natively in Windows. Microsoft has released Microsoft Office for OS X, which can be purchased in an Apple Store. For your final question on Word, you have some options. You do need to be sure your iMac meets the system requirements, which mainly is that it contains an Intel processor. As far as your question of benefits to upgrading, yes there are some new features and fixes in Mac OS X Snow Leopard† that many will find beneficial. Mac OS X Snow Leopard is version 10.6 which you do not currently own, but can be purchased for $29 from any Apple Store. The.8 in 10.5.8 means there have been 8 updates applied to the base 10.5.0 version. Best Answer: CW, If your iMac has 10.5.8, then you have Mac OS X Leopard.
