Comments on: Will Office 2008 popularize iWork, like Vista popularized Leopard?

By: Price Taylor

Price Taylor — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:58:33 +0000

Alex, I think Excel is the “keeper” of the bunch since it’s (a) very powerful and (b) very familiar to a lot of people.

I’m demoing the Office 2007 suite at work and am still finding the “ribbon” both more clumsy and somehpw better than it’s predecessors.

By: Alex Chan

Alex Chan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:18:40 +0000

I think you’re probably right. I have a copy of iWork ‘08 and Office 2008 (which I got yesterday), both running in Leopard. I was expected Office to be pants, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Unfortunately though, I felt that too many of the new features were copied from iWork – e.g. picture frames in Word. So, I’m now using an iWork and Office Combo. I use: Pages, Keynote and Excel, with Word and PowerPoint being used for compatibility issues.

By: Price Taylor

Price Taylor — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:23:17 +0000

Ed, I saw Keynote used at the 2007 Society for Information Management’s conference in Memphis. It was the CIO of FedEx, Rob Carter. I was impressed. It appeared to me that presenters using Macs were about 40%.

By: Price Taylor

Price Taylor — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:20:08 +0000

Mr. Elvin, are you referring to the Mac Mini? I don’t know anyone that has one. Our CEO/Chairman/another board member all have MacBook Pros.

By: Mr. Elvin

Mr. Elvin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:49:38 +0000

I thought about purchasing the $500 Apple that runs on Intel. Is it worth it? My question is whether it is too limited, or does it really give a workable Apple environment.
Regards!

By: Dwayne Phillips

Dwayne Phillips — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:34:05 +0000

I received an email from Apple this morning about the coming Office 2008. I have a copy of the student version of Office 2004 on an old iBook. I never figured out what was lacking in the student version. I don’t know what is lacking in the student version of 2008, but it is a lot less costly.

I’m using NeoOffice (neooffice.org), a spin off of OpenOffice for OS X. It seems to work well.

I have noticed more people using iWork 2008 and Pages.

By: Jeffrey Walker

Jeffrey Walker — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:10:41 +0000

Boy, didn’t that $300 upgrade piss me off too, and for what? A newer version of a word processor that routinely irks the crap out of me because it tries to out-think me in formatting? A while back, an economist/mathematician friend convinced me that one of MS’ best products is Excel. I am soooo into Keynote.

5 minutes with Vista (with help from two MS employees at their Mountain View campus, mind you) to simply load a one page powerpoint doc from my flash drive was like sticking needles in my eyes.

Switching gears: speaking to someone who knows what one of the biggest Henges in the world is! (No one’s built a henge like that ever since. No one knows WTF a henge is.), I found full transcripts of Eddie Izzard’s masterful work here this morning…

http://www.auntiemomo.com/cakeordeath/d2ktranscription.html

A genius. — Jeffrey http://www.radiowalker.com