Check out this screenshot, taken from my desktop http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7384/picture1ig0.png
Tell me one feature that is new in Office 2008 (from 2007) and useful [except the save as PDF, as it is the native feature of OS X]. Office 2008 is a mac port of Office 2007 which is slower and crashes often even with all patches installed. Office 2008 doesn't use Rosseta on Intel anymore but I have no idea why it is this much slow. I guess MS uses their own libraries instead of OS X's native ones for their own convenience of course. Again, Office 2008 has fewer options and features just because of MS strategy (lets not discuss and start a flamewar against MS). I still may be wrong. As I usually talk from my own experience. You are right Sami, iWork'08 is an awesome piece of work. Again comparing to Office 2007/2008, "Pages" might have less features, but "Keynote" is super awesome. Moreover Keynote files can be saved as Flash files :D I am not a fan of Numbers (or Excel either), so can not compare any spreadsheets. iWork is fast, the files are smaller in size, the templates are good and really useful, and moreover it has everything we need all the time. I am beta testing OOo [for mac] for a while, it's alright but I couldn't like it much. It is compatible with MS formats better than before. Check this out http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html By the way, OOo beta is more stable than Office 2008:mac ;) I hope OOo 3 will be a nice step for all platforms. I may move into OpenSolaris soon, then there is NO alternative of OOo :p @Omi bhai I agree with you Omi bhai. I used OOo for preparing everything when I was in year 2 and 3 in university. It is good enough for most of the users. On May 20, 2008, at 11:47 AM, sami wrote: > hi! > > it's right that MS Office 2007 is way cooler than OO.o but MS Office > 2008 > lacks far behind? do you mean Office 2008 for Mac? > well let me tell you, if it's 2008 for Mac you are talking about, I > must say > you are wrong!! > > MS Office 2008 for Mac is way better. More compatibility and more > functional > and much more easier to use... > it think you can check out this link: > http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/Office2008/default.mspx > > and on the other hand, i've been using iWork > '08<http://www.apple.com/iwork/>(Office Suite for by Apple) and i > guess it's also far better than Microsoft > Office. you should see what you can do with Pages (Word equivalent) > and > Keynote (PowerPoint equivalent) can do... it will blow your mind ;) > > and i guess the stable version of OO.o 3 is coming out soon. that > should > also be cool... > > Hassan Sami Adnan > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Raihan Hasnain <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > This is an old topic. Though some guy were asking me the same thing, > > so here it goes. > > Open Source pioneers and MS haters PLEASE ignore this mail. > > > > MS Office 2007 is my most favorite rich text editor. I don't want/ > need > > to explain I guess. Again, I know OO.o is a nice alternative but > > honestly it doesn't even can compete with MS Office 2007. Even > Office > > 2008 lacks far behind of 2007. > > > > Good news is now MS Office 2007 can be used in Linux by WINE. > There is > > no easy way of doing this, but this blog nicely describes how to > do it > > (with a video tutorial). > > > > > > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/03/office-2007-on-linux-with-wine-install.html > > > > NOTE: If you do not own a copy of MS Office 2007, it is still > illegal. > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
