Jan, that's all very nice if you live in an isolated world where everyone else
is using the same software. For most people, however, the need to share a
document between a Windows and Apple environment will inevitably arise, and
then using iWork and similar toys will just not do since most people in the big
bad world use MS Office. I have drunk all the Apple Kool-Aid, but the office
package on my Mac is MS Office for Mac (2008) and it works pretty well. It also
helps that I got the complete package for €25 through my employer's Home Use
Program.
cheers,
Nathan
On 9 Dec, 2010, at 7:14 , Jan Steinman wrote:
>> On 6 Dec 2010, at 05:29, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>>
>>> I went to install MS Office 2008 (the newest incarnation).
>
>> From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> It's not (the newest).
>
> If you're still using Micro$oft crap, you haven't consumed your allotment of
> Apple Kool-Aid yet.
>
> Check out iWork. It does 99% of what I'd use MicroCrap for, at 1/6th the
> price and about 4x the performance. Keynote is a stunning replacement for
> Micosloth SourPoint. Pages does incredible things, incredibly easy, but
> stumbles on translating some .DOC files from Microsloth Turd. Numbers is
> simply amazing in improved usability over Microsloth Ex-Hell and reads
> Ex-Hell files pretty well... but it doesn't do pivot tables. (If you don't
> know what a "pivot table" is, you'll be fine with Numbers.)
>
> There should be a new version of iWork out Any Day Now. Don't let that stop
> you from downloading the free 30-day demo.
>
> Oh. You didn't pay for your copy of Word that won't install? Sympathy--. :-)
>
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> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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