Using Office on my Mac is not in any way a sell-out, and wanting to streamline my work does not make me lazy. Here is an example.
I have three word processors on my Mac, Word 2004, Nisus Express (my favorite) and AppleWorks. All three can open and save to MS Word format, and for my own writing, Nisus is usually the choice. However, and this is a very big however, I still use Word the most. Word opens Word documents natively, without need of translation, and saves them natively as well. When using any other program, unless I'm dealing with a very simple document and no formatting, I always have need to make corrections. Complex formatting, tables, graphics, whatever, something always gets lost or garbled in the translator, and whatever you or anyone else says, I prefer to get my work done the first time, without having to repair lost formatting first, and without forcing anyone who wants to view my work on their computers (usually Windows PCs with Word 2000, XP or 2003) to repair formatting due to my choice of a non-standard word processor. Apple Mail does not have the above problem, but it still won't integrate my email, calendar and to-do lists, sync with my Palm and even integrate with Word, Excel and PowerPoint by grouping related documents and emails together as Entourage does. In short, I don't use Office 2004 because I like MS or want to give Bill my money, I use it because it is by far the best office suite available for the Mac, and it saves me time, time that I can spend with my family instead of time reformatting documents. It also makes a rather bad impression on others when they are forced to do extra work because my documents open as garbled gibberish, doing so it just plain rude. Andrew On 12/26/04 2:59 AM, "Geoffrey Loeffler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Next version no way. This Guy has over 30 Billion and growing. The > paltry act of Office for the Mac is not going to give Bill a second of > worry about money. However losing out on style, functionality and > development of programs, that takes away from the glow of his empire, > will give him a second thought, eliminate it. Remeber the Steve and > Bill show has not been one of love and respect. > > You do not understand men of power, they have money and all that comes > with it, all that you could possibly dream of times a billion and still > have 30 left. What feeds them is to destroy and conquer. Their ruthless > and anything that would take away from their industrial image as being > the elite, they will destroy. That's what get them off. Thats the drive > of men who have power. > > So Apple, the computer and software I prefer, should be planning for > this day. There will be another type of Office for Mac, only it will > not be from MS, the monopoly inquiry is over, MS won. > > I support companies that do things right. I will pay more and work a > bit harder on less robust software to give my money to the companies > that support the Mac. I would not call MS a Mac supporter. Losing I.E. > was but the first shot. Adobe is getting restless. > > So to everyone that loves Office great, you have your choice in life. > Maybe it does make your job easier and you do not have to work as hard, > a seemingly American trait. > > I prefer the people who work harder to make the Mac survive, software > and retail. Those folks bust their ass off on slim margins to make it > work. They take chances in life, it makes you feel alive to do that. I > can usually get hardware and software from the big retailers cheaper, > especially shipping. However I am but 2% of their business. > So I go to the smaller operations that just support the Mac, software > and retail. There I get real people that understand what their selling > and how it works, instead of just reading off a screen. I guess I have > a choice too, until Bill has his dream fulfilled . > > So enjoy Macs at home and keep the issue that Macs are not for business > alive. I apologize as I really could not understand why people would > think Macs are not serious computers and not for business. This is a > huge wall to sales of Macs. If you have a thousand people on Macs but > there running MS office, it still says to the workers, we have Apple > computers but there is no software for the Mac. One of the workers > wants a computer. I use Microsoft Office at work what kind of computer > should I buy. > Enjoy > Geoff > > On Dec 25, 2004, at 7:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> There will be another version of >> Office for the simple reason that the Mac BU makes money which is the >> only >> thing that gets Bill off. > -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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