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There was supposed to be another post in the works but I totally forgot what it was going to be about. I thought of it on Sunday night as I was going to bed… Anyways the title on this post “iWork != MS Office.”

Rougthly two weeks ago I installed the iWork ‘08 trial on the mac. It’s a great office suite and gets the job done. It just doesn’t feel right however to be using it seeing as I do most of my work in a Windows/Unix centric environment. The common document standard at my school is DOC. Sure you can export but I just like to be able to save out without doing any special exporting. It would be great if the new xml based document standard was widely adopted everywhere but it’s not. I’ve also come to learn my way around Office and iWork has significantly less features. Not to mention that I like the new and improved features and ease of use of office 2007. We were supposed to get a beta of Mac Office 2008 this summer but it has been pushed back to later this year/early next year.

So yea… back to my old PPC MS Office 2003

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