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M$1 July 09, 2009 08:56 AM

iWork vs Microsoft Office. Who wins?

I'm on a mac know, and I think pages is better than word. I know theres a Microsoft Word on mac, but its inferior to the windows version.
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warpedspee... warpedspee...
 
 July 09, 2009 01:28 PM
Who wins? Microsoft Office -- because its what every business uses, and for an office suite standardization is more important than anything else.

I made the switch last september to a mac, and I picked up a copy of Mac Office because I needed excel. I also picked up a CS3 Master suite for the design tools, and iWork.

After time spent with the mac version of all 3, I will happily agree the iWork is amazing -- pages and keynote are worlds better. I've made attractive letterhead, business cards, and brochures in Pages in a day -- this would be impossible in Word, and take a week in inDesign.

Keynote makes powerpoint presentations look ridiculous. Amazingly easy and professional are done so quick it almost makes me nervous. Its really too bad that more people don't use iWork. Office has too much traction though.
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colonial b... colonial b...
 
July 09, 2009 10:07 PM
the templates are one thing that makes iWork superior. if iWork was available for pc, that might help get it out there

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warpedspee... warpedspee...
 
July 10, 2009 12:57 PM
I absolutely agree with you. The templates in iWork are great and the whole reason I initially switched from Mac Office. The mac office ones are ridiculous.

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timcadieux timcadieux
 
July 09, 2009 07:14 PM
In this instance, I think that MS will always win, simply because as a tool, the Office Suite is available almost everywhere.

I have an MSDN license, so I use MS myself, however I sued to use OpenOffice. It all really depends on how often you will be working from that MAC v your office and how easily the files convert from iWork to Office compared to OpenOffice to Office which is seamless.

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colonial b... colonial b...
 
July 09, 2009 10:05 PM
my mac is the only computer i have and you can save iwork files as docs, so its pretty seamlees. I bet one problem is pcs are cheaper than macs, thats why they're everywhere, so office is everywhere

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modenapsu modenapsu
 
July 10, 2009 05:43 AM
I am pretty confident that Office is not inferior on Mac. They are nearly identical and as of about a year ago, Excel could handle more data cells on the Mac version as opposed to its Windows counterpart.

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the_unix_g... the_unix_g...
 
July 12, 2009 12:39 AM
I completely disagree! Office:mac 2008 is terribly slow! It takes a long time to open up, to open files, and to do the work it's supposed to do. I have not have had any positive experience with Office on the Mac; I prefer iWork on it. Office for Windows, however, is another story - it runs a lot better.

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modenapsu modenapsu
 
July 12, 2009 01:03 AM
Where I worked there was a big group of us with different MacBook Pro's that found it to work just as well as it did on Windows. Plus my mother has been using it and has not had any complaints.

Sounds like you are short of system memory.

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colonial b... colonial b...
 
July 12, 2009 01:09 AM
I agree with the Unix geek. I have an imac and office on it is real slow and doesn't have all the sweet features. I use a dell at school, and office on that is crisp and sleek.

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modenapsu modenapsu
 
July 12, 2009 04:44 AM
Yea, I could see that, the imac is not nearly as powerful as the macbook pro.

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krysstel krysstel
 
July 10, 2009 10:18 PM
MS office wins - been using MS stuff practically since it was out. Not too interested in learning something new when I have something that works awesome for 2 decades ;-) There's my two cents :-)

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