Facts Straightened

@ iwork FTW (...just)!

For someone who favours iWorks you could at least get the name of the apps correct, the presentation software is called Keynote, the spreadsheet is Numbers.

@ N2

Windows Office users can open and edit Docx files in older versions with the compatibility pack. Apple users don't need Microsoft to make them smug most of them are smug gits already, at least the vocal ones.

Badly broken

Office 2008 for Mac is plain atrocious.

I had a presentation sent to me by work, which had been made on a windows version of office. When opening it in Office 2008 for Mac, the Layout and formatting were obviously wrong (I had already seen it running on a windows machine).

I then opened the same presentation in iWork and Open Office and it displayed perfectly.

So, non-Microsoft Office programs can open Microsoft Office created documents better.

Pathetic.

Try it yourself. Create a simple document in Office 2008 for Mac, then open it in Office for Windows and vice versa.

The vast majority of the time they will not display the same. That is unforgivable, particularly when iWork and Open Office get it right.

iWork

Straightforward non processor hogging, no bloat & a pleasure to use & dosnt piss me off on a regular basis.

As for Orifice, the 2000/2003 versions much better, what makes me laugh is the PC users who dont have Microsofts latest bulge & cant open docx files (without a viewer), where as my Mac reads them fine & offers a selection to load the format

I just cant think of any reason why MS dreamt up this broken xml format other than to make Mac users look & feel smug.

The term Richard Cranium or Dickheads springs to mind.