of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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Everyone who says "blah blah blah Office is so unusable, iWork is better than sliced bread" should try Office 2007. Usability has gone WAY up in this version. The whole "it's buried in a menu" thing was a valid pitfall that people consistently suffered in usability tests, so MS finally addressed it in the new version. And frankly, I think it's awesome. I've discovered so many features since switching to the new version (some that are new, most that were available in 2003 that I didn't know about). Personally, my productivity has skyrocketed.
I'm SURE the next Mac version of Office will see all of these great UI changes and more.
Though, that being said, $79 for an office suite is kind of hard to beat, heh.
BTW, Microsoft switches itself over to a more open and robust file format (everything based on XML), that generates files about half the size as before, and people complain about "MS forced incompatibilities!!!"? This is the rock and hard-place that MS constantly finds itself in.
I agree with everything you said. But I can't help but be PISSED that MS's new "more open and robust file format" CANNOT BE OPENED by their most current software release for my platform (Office 2004). And they release a converter that gives me a .rtf. For Excel '07 and Powerpoint '07, I'm SOL for opening those files.
I understand giving up backward compatibility, every company must cut the cord. But please, only do it when you provide an upgrade path. For me Office '08 is vaporware.
The funny irony.. I upgraded to iWork '08 so that I could readily and dependably open Word '07 files.
If you bothered to look up Office Open XML you'd see that there are serious issues with it. I would bet it won't get the ISO nod. It is less worse, but still bad, from what I read. What we need are truly open formats, not more-, half-way-, or pseudo-open.