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By nyx | September 26, 2008
I recently came across this post in internet satirising about the rejections from the Apple App Store of a couple of application because they were replicating functionality offered by other Apple products.
For Mac users it makes sense to dump MSO straight away, iWork is mature and yet new enough to accomplish almost all the tasks that you would do with Office.
Pages is easier to use, it is powerful and fun to use. I know people who has been using Word for 20 years and they don’t know more that a bold header and B&W documents that made my creativity ache. My girlfriend has been using Pages for two years and she can create beautiful documents. Anyone I’ve told about it has switched and never look back.
If you ever use Keynote, you’ll never gonna want to use Powerpoint again.
And Numbers is maybe too new and lacks some of the functionality required in a real office workflow, but be certain that they will get there. If you don’t require this extra functions maybe Numbers is easier to understand and use that MS Excel.
I used to have MS Office installed in my Mac. For the last two years I have been attending my Computing course at University and I have to say that they enforce the use of MS products at any cost. The lecturers didn’t like the fact that I completely renounced to be taught in MS terms, I think that I didn’t win anyone’s sympathy by being different, but my documents were the best presented documentation of all the students. All thanks to use iWork instead of Office.
If you like to wait ages for your applications and, above else all, to keep the general feeling of achievement that you get after making a MS application do something (NOT EASY), I sincerely hope you enjoy your life in the darkness…
peace
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