> Wanted to install an old copy of MS Office 2004 (needed for work and I had
> it) on my new MacBook Pro. Instead of a restart required message at the end
> of the install, I simply get an installation successful message. When I
> d-click on the application icon to launch I get the message that "The
> application Virtual PC quit unexpectedly". The report button shows:
>
> Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
> Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000000000000
> Crashed Thread: 0
>
> Searching the MS knowledge base is useless - does anyone have any ideas how
> to get it installed?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

> In article <(email address - cut out)>,
> AES Tim <AES (email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> > Wanted to install an old copy of MS Office 2004 (needed for work and I had
> > it) on my new MacBook Pro. Instead of a restart required message at the end
> > of the install, I simply get an installation successful message. When I
> > d-click on the application icon to launch I get the message that "The
> > application Virtual PC quit unexpectedly". The report button shows:
> >
> > Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
> > Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000000000000
> > Crashed Thread: 0
> >
> > Searching the MS knowledge base is useless - does anyone have any ideas how
> > to get it installed?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Just think. You coulda had a V8.
>
> VPC for Macintosh won't run on a MacBook Pro. Sell it on eBay.
>
> Use Fusion or Parallels instead (after you buy a commercial copy of XP).
>
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>

>Thanks! - after my struggle I thought this might be the case. Is there an
>article in the MS knowledge base that states this?