Hello,
I have been looking at iWork but looking at it its "09 thats like 2 years old. Will iWork get updated or is it anther thing apple is killing off?
Well, Microsoft isn't any faster than Apple. Office 2007 was released on January 30th, 2007 and Office 2010 was released on June 15th, 2010. That's three and a half years. iWork '09 is "only" two years old.
Well, Microsoft isn't any faster than Apple. Office 2007 was released on January 30th, 2007 and Office 2010 was released on June 15th, 2010. That's three and a half years. iWork '09 is "only" two years old.
Anyway, there isn't much to improve. The basic features of productivity suites have been the same for years, if not for decades soon. A new version won't revolutionize the way you do documents. I'm fine with Apple staying with iWork '09 instead of releasing new version each year with one minor extra feature and charging 79$ for that.
When they have something worth releasing, they will do that.
The difference is that Office is a lot more mature so development doesn't need to be so rapid where as iWork is lacking and could do with updating (autosave anyone?).
Isn't Office a more complicated program (meaning a lot more code) so it's harder/takes longer to update?
Whereas iWork is a simpler program. I'd appreciate better Bibliography management for iWork
Well, it depends on what the update includes. I'm not a programmer but I'm pretty sure MS could use the same code with few tweaks of course and then add couple of new, minor features and update is annually.
Haha fair enough. They claim to be rewriting major pieces of code though...and after using Office 2011 I don't doubt it.
Isn't Office a more complicated program (meaning a lot more code) so it's harder/takes longer to update?
Whereas iWork is a simpler program. I'd appreciate better Bibliography management for iWork
Autosave's coming with Lion though
Some of the new features in Lion (AutoSave, Versions, and Resume in particular) will require a revision of iWork to take advantage of them, so expect a new iWork released simultaneously with Lion.
the current office version is simply amazing. there is absolutely no need to use iwork.. and the people who claim that office is "too" difficult to use for the casual user has never used office, at least not the current version, which is 2010 for Windows and 2011 for OSX. it's straightforward and miles ahead of iwork.. besides, people seem to forget that you get more with office than just powerpoint, excel and word. Onenote is an incredible piece of software (that's just one example) and outlook is great too. when it comes to software it's just microsoft >> apple.
dont' get me wrong, mail and iwork are decent applications. but that's about it. if you do more than writing an email per day or sending/receiving more than 2 emails a day, you'll never go back to either of the mentioned apple software if you've used office for 3 days.
I use mail and ical everyday and have written quite some papers with pages.I'll admit i never used numbers for more than "notes" and the same goes for excel. powerpoint and keynote are both great, while I find keynote easier to use for a quick and 'cool' looking presentation but I would NEVER use keynote to prepare a presentation in a business environment.
just my 2cents
What are your needs? Answer that question. Then find the tools that do the job.Personally, I'm not crazy about Numbers. For some reason, to me, it feels kind of bogged down, or heavy. Maybe it's just me / my MacBook. Then again, I don't like Mac Office excel either.
Numbers and Pages' use of styles need work IMO.Anyway, there isn't much to improve.
Well, Microsoft isn't any faster than Apple. Office 2007 was released on January 30th, 2007 and Office 2010 was released on June 15th, 2010. That's three and a half years. iWork '09 is "only" two years old.
Anyway, there isn't much to improve. The basic features of productivity suites have been the same for years, if not for decades soon. A new version won't revolutionize the way you do documents. I'm fine with Apple staying with iWork '09 instead of releasing new version each year with one minor extra feature and charging 79$ for that.
When they have something worth releasing, they will do that.
I hope the new version of iWork properly supports British English (or as it's otherwise known, English )
It doesn't detect it automatically based on your location when you set up your OS. What's the point in having a system wide spellcheck and then giving Pages its own thing (at least I think that's what's happening, analyse is a word in TextEdit but not in Pages by default).
Then to top it all, when I change it, it doesn't remember the setting after I close it down.