Mircosoft considered dropping Mac Office to hurt Apple

[aryayush]

Apple downplays Windows, not Office.

And I need not mention that Windows deserves every bit of negative criticism it receives, whether it be from Apple, Scott Finnie, Jim Allchin or the U.S. Government.

The office suite is the only thing Microsoft is good at, though Keynote is far superior to Powerpoint.

 

[goobimama]

@gx: Btw, don't compare Apple Works with Office. Try Pages + Keynote of iWork and then talk...

 

[gxsaurav]

Pages - You work based on a few templates only. Let me know if u can make a document or DTP work like u can do in Word 2003\2007

Keynote - Ya right, compared to powerpoint its very low in power & features

 

[aryayush]

I admit that Word is much more powerful when compared to Pages but Keynote is the best presentation software in the world. Even a newbie like me can make a slicker presentation in Keynote than an expert in Powerpoint. Look at Vista's feature presentation by Microsoft and the presentation at Macworld, 2007.

 

[goobimama]

If you had seen how much my dad cursed MS Word when he made the mistake of publish an entire set of 6 books in Word, you can be certain that Word is not meant to be a Layout design. Its a great word processor though. But if you need to go "designing" anything, I'd say stick to InDesign or better still Pagemaker 7. Nothing can beat those two...(sad that Adobe stopped Pagemaker).

As for pages, it takes care of most of my daily needs (doing a 200 page project report for a client to be submitted to the Supreme Court of India...Got that? And the client is reeeeaaaaaly satisfied with the current results....)

 

[aryayush]

But the client needs to have a Mac too.