Though the recently released Microsoft Office 2011 suite is getting the lion’s share of the attention these days, the Microsofties aren’t neglecting the previous incarnation, as proven by the release of the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.8 update. Beyond the traditional stability improvements, the update also includes fixes for several serious security vulnerabilities. The other focus of the update is Entourage; crashing bugs related to opening messages with inline attachments, sending messages, and clicking meeting invitations are all corrected. (Free update, 332.8 MB)
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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.8 Update
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I'm trying to install the Office 08 12.2.8 upgrade, but because I have Office 11 also installed it wants me to quit SyncServicesAgent, but I can't find out where to go to quit that. The update installer, without quiting SyncServicesAgent makes it so you can't even shut the machine down to start over. Any suggestions?
I don't have Office 2011 but the generic answer to quitting programs you can't see is to start Activity Monitor, make sure it's set to show All Processes, sort by Process name, click the process then Quit Process.