iWork: sleeper hit from Macworld?

What is PC Magazine doing running an article about Apple's iWork software? They're telling sleeping giant Microsoft they'd better sit up and take notice of Apple's innovation in the office suite realm.

Michael Miller thinks iWork '05 may even turn out to be even
more influential than the Mac mini or the iPod shuffle. The reason? Microsoft Office has been devoting the lion's share of its development work towards adding enterprise features, and Microsoft's competitors (namely Corel WordPerfect and StarOffice/OpenOffice) have been focusing largely on being compatible with Microsoft Office. In steps Apple in its spry way to radically rethink the way features are offered in office productivity applications: "iWork offers a visual way of looking at your documents, so it brings out many features that are buried in Microsoft products."

Miller thinks Apple's iWork could be the impetus that may actually kickstart Microsoft to overhaul Powerpoint, and to get MS and other developers to rethink office application development. What do you think – will iWork be a sleeper hit?

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