MS Office for Mac vs iWork '05

Posted By: Bogusrabin | Jan 3rd, 2005 @ 8:10 AM
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#Jan 3rd, 2005 @ 10:27 AM
Rossj
Rossj
Bogusrabin wrote:
Pretty interesting news/rumour ...
Hopefully it uses open fileformats.

Apple will launch its new iWork '05 productivity suite at Macworld Expo ...


I had heard that this was by the Gobe guys (although I might be wrong) who will probably we fairly well known to any old BeOS users.  Regardless with a price point lower than Office OSX this is going to kill any future for Office on the mac unless Microsoft pull something special out of the bag.
#Jan 3rd, 2005 @ 3:09 PM
TimP
TimP

What makes you think this will be any more successful than OpenOffice? Unless they completely emulate Microsoft file formats and functionality, it will always be unusable for high end Office users. Not being able to even open or convert MS files would be a kiss of death to the product.

#Jan 3rd, 2005 @ 5:16 PM
Tom Malone
Tom Malone
OpenOffice for mac os x is terrible, its uses the x windowing system so its difficult to setup and use. Sun also doesn't produce star office for mac os x, so there probably is a market for a middle of the road office suite cheapper that ms office but still cabaple of simple word processing etc.

Tom
#Jan 4th, 2005 @ 12:22 AM
Rossj
Rossj
Tom Malone wrote:
OpenOffice for mac os x is terrible, its uses the x windowing system so its difficult to setup and use. Sun also doesn't produce star office for mac os x, so there probably is a market for a middle of the road office suite cheapper that ms office but still cabaple of simple word processing etc.

Tom


Definitely right, at $499 Office is WAAY too expensive for your average home user.
#Jan 4th, 2005 @ 4:58 AM
matt0210
matt0210
I don't think this is going to scratch MS one bit. On some mac-forums people have now and again debated if and when Apple makes a Photoshop. It wouldn't make sense. MS has every conceivable feature in Office and it's a truly great application. All Apple can (and probably will) do is create some software that lets users do the basics. They will go a bit beyond Textedit.app but they'll never reach office, even if they also put in a small spread sheet. Look at it as a replacement for that hideous thing called Appleworks.
#Jan 4th, 2005 @ 5:09 AM
Rossj
Rossj
matt0210 wrote:
I don't think this is going to scratch MS one bit.


Surely you are not suggesting you would rather pay $499 for Product X when Product Y probably does all the things you need of it for $100 ?

They *did* hire the Gobe guys, why do that if you didn't intend to produce a compatible office suite?
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