<P> Microsoft Office 2001 was launched in 2000 as the last Office suite for the classic Mac OS . It required a PowerPC processor . This version introduced Entourage, an e-mail client that included information management tools such as a calendar, an address book, task lists and notes . </P> <P> Microsoft Office v. X was released in 2001 and was the first version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS X . Support for Office v. X ended on 9 January 2007 after the release of the final update, 10.1. 9 Office v.X includes Word X, Excel X, PowerPoint X, Entourage X, MSN Messenger for Mac and Windows Media Player 9 for Mac; it was the last version of Office for Mac to include Internet Explorer for Mac . </P> <P> Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac was released on 11 May 2004 . It includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage and Virtual PC . It is the final version of Office to be built exclusively for PowerPC and to officially support G3 processors, as its sequel lists a G4, G5 or Intel processor as a requirement . It was notable for supporting Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is unavailable in Office 2008 . This led Microsoft to extend support for Office 2004 from September 10, 2009 to January 10, 2012 . VBA functionality was reintroduced in Office 2011, which is only compatible with Intel processors . </P> <P> Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac was released on 15 January 2008 . It was the only Office for Mac suite to be compiled as an universal binary, being the first to feature native Intel support and the last to feature PowerPC support for G4 and G5 processors, although the suite is unofficially compatible with G3 processors . New features include native Office Open XML file format support, which debuted in Office 2007 for Windows, and stronger Microsoft Office password protection employing AES - 128 and SHA - 1 . Benchmarks suggested that compared to its predecessor, Office 2008 ran at similar speeds on Intel machines and slower speeds on PowerPC machines . Office 2008 also lacked Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support, leaving it with only 15 months of additional mainstream support compared to its predecessor . Nevertheless, five months after it was released, Microsoft said that Office 2008 was "selling faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years" and affirmed "its commitment to future products for the Mac ." </P>

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