On 2007-12-06 08:25:51 -0500, elcharlot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
> So, seems there's absolutly no news for Microsoft keyboards users that
> upgraded to Leopard ... and so, no generic drivers ? That starts to be
> really painfull in everyday use, thinking about throwing away my MS
> keyboard ... that was the only good MS product in my point of view :(
I've been able to flesh out this problem a little further:
1. Had one incident where Entourage (running under 10.5.1) had the
problem where the keyboard went dead until the program was quit using
the mouse -- and this was using a MacBook internal keyboard only!
2. Loaned out my MacBook Pro to a co-worker who uses Word almost
exclusively. In a single day, he encountered the same problem where his
keyboard (a USB-based Microsoft Internet Pro Keyboard) went dead until
he used the mouse to quit the program, and then relaunched.
Neither of these incidents caused the spontaneous shutdown of all
running programs. The only time I've seen that is when using Excel, and
so far only with an external USB keyboard. To date, I've not had any
problems using Excel with the built-in keyboard (but it's possible that
I just haven't run into it yet).
Based upon this new information, my feeling is that it's not anything
specifically wrong with Excel or Entourage or Word, but rather Mac OS X
10.5's handling of PowerPC code, somehow in connection with keyboard
input. Office 2004 is the only piece of non-Intel-native software I'm
running, and I use my USB keyboard extensively in all other
applications, yet never have this problem.
Hopefully Apple is already on this, or the problem will "solve itself"
when Office 2008 becomes available in January. Until then, do what I
do: save often.
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