Geekboy presented one solution as far back as December 2004, and according to latest testing, this is still broken on Office 2008. Instead, the Windows user is told 'QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture'. Images inserted into any Office 2004 application by using either cut and paste or drag and drop result in a file that does not display the inserted graphic when viewed on a Windows machine.

Virtual PC does not work on Intel-based Macs and in August 2006, Microsoft announced it would not be ported to Intel-based Macintoshes, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macintoshes are no longer manufactured. Included with Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition, Microsoft Virtual PC is a virtualization application which emulates Microsoft Windows operating systems on Mac OS X which are PowerPC-based.

Microsoft ultimately shipped support for Visual Basic in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac. However, Office 2008 did not include support for Visual Basic for Applications, so Microsoft has extended support and updates for the older Office 2004 out to January 10, 2012. Office 2004 was replaced by its successor, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, which was written to run natively on Intel Macs. The software was originally written for the PowerPC Macs, so Macs with Intel CPUs must run the program under Mac OS X's Rosetta emulation layer. Office 2004 for Mac is a version of Microsoft Office developed for Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Screenshot of Microsoft Word 2004 on an Intel-based Mac in Mac OS X v10.4 'Tiger' through Rosetta

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