Comments on: iWork. Microsoft May be Worried

By: amin

amin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:46:09 +0000

can anybody else comment on iwork numbers vs neooffice calc?

By: Office 2008 Available for Pre-Order | MacApper

Office 2008 Available for Pre-Order | MacApper — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:32:46 +0000

[...] ‘08, or sticking with the ageing Office ‘04… or by the sounds of our recent iWork post, are you planning on sticking with iWork ‘08? Sound off in the comments and let us [...]

By: sveejens

sveejens — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:50:10 +0000

The day iWork get the possibility to merge addresses etc from other sources than the AddressBook, then I’ll be there. A tab-separated txt-file would be great!

By: Leo

Leo — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:54:15 +0000

Keynote is at version 4, Pages at 3, Numbers at 1.

By: Paulo

Paulo — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:02:35 +0000

I have just switched from the PC to the Mac and decided to go with iWork due to the price. Functionality wise there’s nothing in Word, Excel or PowerPoint that I need and is not present in Pages, Numbers or Keynote. There is one big thing that I need and I don’t get, though, which is an Outlook type of application.

I used to rely heavily on Outlook in the PC for calendar, contacts, tasks and e-mail as well as Exchange Server and Mail doesn’t get even close, so I may have to fork out for Office 2008 when it comes out so that I can get Entourage.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:30:17 +0000

I love iWork. It is now compatible with everything, so why pay more, when it does everything you need it to.

Plus there are little noticeable features iWork has that Microsoft Office doesn’t have.

By: Sky

Sky — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:50:43 +0000

Pages + PDF support on the Mac is my goto combination for document publishing. I just started using Numbers and think it’s the one app where MS Excel will continue to have the biggest advantage for power users. I imagine this will change with future Numbers releases.

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:27:09 +0000

iWork is way better for me. I don’t need those advanced extra features from Office nor the Microsoft junk on my HD.

For me, considering both suites fulfill my needs, what count most is the quality-price combo. And that’s where Microsoft gets crunched by Apple.

By: rantdepot

rantdepot — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:18:00 +0000

As much as I love Pages, as a student I can’t help but claim that Word 2007 on Windows is a superior product for several reasons, including:
1. Built in bibliography manager and automatic citations formatting. Anyone who has written a paper/report with more than a handful of References will greatly appreciate this.
2. Autonumbering and cross-referencing of figures/tables in text.
3. List of Figures/Tables generation with support for subsections (like 2.1, 2.1.1, etc.) that don’t get lost everytime you regenerate the ToC.

That’s really it. I realize #2-3 is available in older versions of office (on Mac and Windows). Office 2008 for Mac should have the bibliography manager which makes it lucrative for students who don’t want to use LaTeX (yes, I’ve tried it and prefer to avoid it at all costs).

Regardless, I always start a new report/paper in Pages due to the pleasing templates. And the vectorized equations formatting offered by Grapher.app is just brilliant.

By: Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:01:32 +0000

When I switched over to Leopard, I deleted all my apps (just kept my licensing info), and reinstall the ones I need. This gets me more disk space, TimeMachine-drive space, and faster spotlight (for those times I don’t feel like using Quicksilver). MS Office was one of those apps I never reinstalled. iWork ‘08 is my favorite productivity application (well, 2nd favorite if you count Safari which is sometimes productive ), it helps me get homework done well, and it WOWs other students and my teachers. Yay for iWork!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:40:46 +0000

I ditched office and don’t miss it.

FYI… copying directly from Illustrator into Keynote renders some of the best art I’ve seen in a presentation.

Makes for crappy PPT export, but fook them anyway if they want a PPT!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:01:33 +0000

I use Pages if I need to make a PDF with clickable links. I use NeoOffice (the Mac-ized version of Open Office) for spreadsheets.

Once I have my new iMac next week, I’ll add iWork 08 and use Numbers for my expense reports. I’ll keep NeoOffice around since it works the same way as Office does for those times that I need Office features (which is almost never).

By: nate

nate — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:59:01 +0000

i may be old school, but as a student compatibility is a key issue. id rather work in word and excel in native format than export and import from keynote and numbers. Plus no vba support in numbers.

of course i havent even opened powerpoint once since my iwork purchase, its an essential tool for maintaining my gpa with killer presentations. i also havent opened pages or numbers to be fair though.

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:48:40 +0000

iWork all the way. Abandoned Office after using it since 1994.

By: Tao

Tao — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:42:40 +0000

I started using OpenOffice but then moved to iWork when iWord 08 came out.

By: Alex P

Alex P — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:40:52 +0000

iWork is faster, cheaper and fits in nicer with the Mac GUI than Office.

There are occasional things that bug me about iWork, but there are also plenty of times when I see it do something and wonder why Office never did that…

It’s certainly more than enough for my needs.

(The above largely applies to Pages, I don’t need a spreadsheet, and Keynote is clearly way, way better than Powerpoint in every single way)

By: Ronald Lamars

Ronald Lamars — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:36:20 +0000

I use Pages and Numbers for almost everything I used to use ms office for. I use word only when I have to (when others send me word-files with macro’s for instance). I will never return to ms office.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:33:29 +0000

Iwork is great….I don’t miss any of the features. Simple is great.I don’t want to be power user of any these office apps anyways….

By: Jean Pierre

Jean Pierre — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:25:40 +0000

iWork is faster and does everything I need.
Also, it is cheaper and more pleasant to use.
I will not go back to Office. Never.

By: Serge

Serge — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:14:19 +0000

I stopped using MS Office for OpenOffice a year ago… There really is no reason to use MS Office at all anymore, it’s complete bloatware. MS Office may have been important to have on your Mac when Tiger hit, but those days are long behind us now