iWork ’08 Released
Yesterday Apple updated iWork '08 and with the addition of Numbers to iWork, it was something I really had to try. I've been putting off getting MS Office for a long time. I just didn't like the idea of spending money on another Microsoft product, and TextEdit and Mesa did almost all the tasks I needed. But they weren't 100%, and in the end, I still had to do a lot of fiddling with Word, Excel, etc. So I was happy to see that iWork added a spreadsheet.
I got the trial and tried to open up some of the critical Excel and Word docs that I needed to have. For the most part, I need to be able to read and write these formats, so it was very nice that right there on the web sites, it says Pages and Numbers can read and write Office formatted files. Combine that with the fact that the style of these apps is incredible, and you have a really compelling argument.
Then again, it's $79.
Sold.
I will use the trial until I get the serial number in the email, or get the package from Apple in a few days. It's nice to be able to support the Good Guys and at the same time fit in with the rest of the business world on the file formats. Yup... I'm a big Apple fan.