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- benitojuarez, on 01/04/2008, -3/+40anyone that doesnt work as a burger flipper perhaps.
- Sarki, on 01/04/2008, -3/+39Judging by the popularity of the torrents, thousands of people do.
- LordofChaosIori, on 01/04/2008, -4/+37Ignoring all the baseless negative comments on here... I'm really looking forward to this, I really liked the ribbon when it was added to Office 2007, and I'm looking forward to not having to switch to my Windows partition to work with it.
- estvir, on 01/04/2008, -5/+36The 'real world' does, you should check it out.
- MGopinath, on 01/04/2008, -6/+37Can't image work life without MS Office.
- Berkana, on 01/04/2008, -2/+31'cause iWork only has one really kick-ass application right now, and that's Keynote. When it comes to word processing, Pages doesn't quite cut it. MS Word is still the best word processor for Mac. Mellel II is pretty good, but not quite MS Word. And even if you debate the merits of Word, you can't deny the fact that it is a de-facto standard because it is so widespread. I'd bet that MS Word is more dominant as a word processor than Photoshop is as an image manipulator; at least Photoshop has a pretty good open source competitor—the GIMP. Nothing else even comes close to MS Word as far as I've seen.
Ditto for Excel vs. iWork's Numbers. When Apple's office apps are mature, maybe they'll be real competition for MS Office, but right now, it's hardly a match. - ocellnuri, on 01/04/2008, -1/+25Dugg for the writing:
"Anyway, that x is there, but bear in mind that you'll probably want to send people things in .doc format unless you know they're also living in the future like you." - renegadeafk, on 01/04/2008, -4/+25I like linux but...openoffice sucks
- DietMountainDew, on 01/04/2008, -2/+22Say what you want about Microsoft, but the ribbon was most of the innovative things Microsoft have done. It puts everything there in 2 clicks or less, instead of searching submenu after submenu.
- theblueprint, on 01/04/2008, -13/+31I've been waiting since 06 for a Universal version of Office to come out.
I've been using iWork lately, and I don't see anything in the submission that's compelling enough to make me want to switch back to Office. It's too little, too late. - inactive, on 01/04/2008, -0/+16Just about any business in the planet. Why?
- Haon, on 01/04/2008, -0/+16Same here. I just want to get ***** done and Office 03/07 (windows) does it for me. Office 04...not so much.
- estvir, on 01/04/2008, -2/+15The Ribbon actually uses less space if you compared pixels to pixels than the previous GUI and this is from Jensen Harris' blog* who worked on the Ribbon. Also, I can't seriously believe you just bad mouthed the Ribbon and praised the old menu system.
* http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/04/17/5 ...
Also, read this: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/10/t ...
I'm sorry you're dumb. - Phocion55, on 01/04/2008, -2/+12"Please resend attachment in any other format other than DOCX. Thank you!"
I love seeing or sending that email reply at work. - replikhant, on 01/04/2008, -0/+7being a mac user who can handle office and other MS applications gives you an advantage.
- ozydingo, on 01/04/2008, -0/+7We might not want to admit it, but OpenOffice has a ways to go before catching up with Office.
- ajchavar, on 01/04/2008, -1/+8wordperfect eats my *****. its less polished than OpenOffice.
- gjscds, on 01/04/2008, -2/+8It's about damn time. Rosetta translation just doesn't work all that well. Try using PPT on the Mac... the lag is so bad, it's essentially unusable.
- arbulus, on 01/04/2008, -3/+8NeoOffice is the bomb for Mac (since it's just OpenOffice with a wrapper to allow it to run without X)
OpenOffice for everything else. - eternalsnows, on 01/04/2008, -0/+5You do realize that both menu bars put together are wider than the screen, and thus one would have to be truncated if it were dragged to the same line?
- kilodelta, on 01/04/2008, -0/+5thats great, but it still sucks.
- scabbers, on 01/04/2008, -3/+8Hell, most of us could get by with wordpad, but ms office has some amazing features that help you to not lose marks on papers, or be thought of as a retard by your boss.
- inactive, on 01/04/2008, -0/+5£99.99 Home and Student edition
£349.99 the full Office
£449.99 Special Media Edition
Most people I know and myself included will go for Home and Student edition. - domahmegok, on 01/04/2008, -0/+5i use iwork as well, but numbers is crap compared to excel.
- stinkypyper, on 01/04/2008, -1/+6I have a Mac and I find that the app's Microsoft writes for OS X are really good. I thought Office 2004 was pretty sweet.
- Eallan, on 01/04/2008, -1/+6As a student i believe that I will have to cave into Office. I mean it's just so hard to have everything mesh with what professors and school computers want.
- SoundScape, on 01/04/2008, -3/+8So we're to understand that instead of simply purchasing Office for Mac, you've paid for Fusion, Windows (XP?) AND Office? Or have you pirated the lot?
You've clearly chosen the smartest option. Perhaps this is why you're being dugg down. - HimThatSpeaks, on 01/04/2008, -2/+7I will buy it. Looks pretty. Please though, can I get Access on a Mac. What is the problem?
- jonahan52, on 01/04/2008, -3/+8Then use Filemaker the true mutli-platform database.
- Tippis, on 01/04/2008, -0/+5Because they *don't* do everything MS Office does, and does so in a less user-friendly way...
- truspect0r, on 01/04/2008, -3/+7LOL at the comments. It's awesome but I hate it!
- BossKey, on 01/04/2008, -0/+4Because you're wrong about the open-source offerings being able to do every single thing MS Office can do. Neo/Open Office cannot properly handle all of the features that I and my colleagues & clients require from Word. If I can't exchange files with them and preserve our work, I can't use Neo/Open Office.
- redfox2600, on 01/04/2008, -0/+4Although the ribbon doesn't allow for you to customize a specialized tool bar, I personally feel it a lot more cleaner than the old dump every sub tool bar onto the top of the window scheme.
I personally found it fairly easy to get use too which leads to the question, did your users actually made an attempt to learn it or did they just ring you up each time something different pop up? - silverweed, on 01/04/2008, -0/+4I use the latest version of office on windows (vista) and I love the new layout, the ribbon system works really well.
- GregR, on 01/04/2008, -0/+4The lack of Visual Basic in the new version means that the app is useless if you are working seriously in Excel or working in a cross-platform office with PCs.
- inactive, on 01/04/2008, -3/+7open office is a bloated piece of *****. Abiword is good but still no where near as good as MS Word.
- chris9902, on 01/04/2008, -0/+4"Who uses Office anymore?"
everyone. - davewho, on 01/04/2008, -0/+4Wouldn't be so sure on the mustard phrase:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/mustard.html
I'd trust Paul Brians since this is sort of his thing. - jhaks, on 01/04/2008, -0/+4Why is this fanboy getting dugg up. It's obvious he's never even tried Office 2007/2008 in an objective manner if at all.
- chriskeyes, on 01/04/2008, -0/+3Does open formats necessarily better formats? And I thought I heard that Office support the OpenXML format or whatever.
And I certainly don't pay $400 for Office. Don't remember how much, but I paid a much lesser price and I'm happy with it. - inactive, on 01/04/2008, -6/+9I cant wait till the torrent comes out
- deiphobus, on 01/04/2008, -1/+4That's because it's for OS X. Of course it will look like an Apple app. I'll color you stupid.
- Chewie67, on 01/04/2008, -3/+6This must be the 10th "First Look" I've seen in the past 2 weeks...
- inactive, on 01/04/2008, -0/+3Thats because we all complained for years that 2004 didn't look 'mac' enough...
- djh816, on 01/04/2008, -4/+7arrrr...
- tbenathan, on 01/04/2008, -0/+3Pages, even the new version, is not NEARLY powerful enough for someone who writes professionally or even just frequently. The interface is clean, but it doesn't have enough features.
Office 2008 better not disappoint. - gjscds, on 01/05/2008, -0/+3Tried using Keynote. I WANTED to use Keynote. But Keynote didn't have the auto-fitting text. (Fit's text to the available space on the slide.) So--that was it for Keynote.
- GregR, on 01/04/2008, -0/+2Agreed. A totally stupid move by MS unless they are hoping to force the Mac users to buy a full version of Vista (and Office) so they can run Office in virtualization.
- kseymore, on 01/04/2008, -1/+3If you thought running it in Rosetta was bad, just wait till you have to sit through the crazy flash-like animations that are all over the interface when you click on certain things. It is like having to sit through movie previews at a theater.
- ozydingo, on 01/04/2008, -0/+2I've tried to go down that path, but there were still some benefits of using MS Office that I couldn't justify giving up for my love of open source. MS Office is still a better program as it currently stands, and is also unfortunately expected of you from many (documents I made with NeoOffice after uploading to my class server wouldn't open properly on my professor's computer, causing a bit of trouble, so for that and usability reasons I switched to using MS Office)
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