Anyone tried the iWork '09?

[Lost-in-FL]

I am liking it a lot. You can even share your documents online (overkill I think since you can just e-mail the document) and it is FULLY MS Office Compatible according to what I read!!! You can get a 30 day trial. I will wait before I get a license but only if is really compatible with MS Office. If iLife shows as much improvement at this iWork it is going to be a killer bundle.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. got it, and between

open office (or neo-office) and Pages, I've deleted the past bit of my MS software, including Office suite.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Got it, and you know what? ONLY ONE MAJOR BEEF

I use a linux box on the road (yes really cheap)

Well trying to get it to read the RTF file as an outline, yes it was created as an outline, was more than just a pain

Ok, it would not... so I opened the damn thing in Open Office 3.0 for my Mac

Yes, I have more word processors than normal folks should, I know

[moggie]

3. It's not fully MS-Office compatible

I was hugely skeptical at that compatibility claim, given that not even Microsoft manage full compatibility between different versions of Office. Anyway, I finally tried Numbers '09, and the first Excel spreadsheet I tried opening gives two import warnings about Excel features not supported (frozen panes or split windows, and password protection for sheets).

[47of74]

4. Not yet

We're thinking of waiting and seeing if Apple does a Snow Leopard/iWork/iLife package deal then we might go for it then, and since we're a multi-mac household getting a family pack.

[av8rdave]

5. So far so good

Other than a small partition to run some company software, I am Microsoft free!

What a great feeling!