Apple iWork '09

Apple iWork '09 is a suite of three programs - Pages, a word processor, Numbers, an Excel equivalent, and Keynote, a PowerPoint substitute. iWork is, rather unusually, at just £60 actually cheaper than Microsoft's alternative Microsoft Office for Mac. So, is Apple's offering better than Microsoft's? Read on and all will be revealed... To start with, the quality of design in iWork '09 is - well, in my opinion at least - better than the quality of design you get in Microsoft Office. There are template designs for keynote that look amazing, and Pages has a selection of templates that look nicer than Microsoft Word's default templates. On from design, iWork is very ...  Read the complete review

iWork 09 is the latest version of Apple's smallish business software suite. Comprised of Pages, Numbers and Keynote and priced at around £60 it make for a compelling purchase when compared to Microsoft Office and it's prohibitive price tag. Installation is simple enough, you just have to run an installer package and go through a couple of simple steps. One thing I noticed during this was that Apple seem to have dropped using serial numbers (iWork '08 had them.) On to the individual programs: Pages - A reasonably simple but capable word processor. One of the standout new features for me was the full screen writing mode. Very ...  Read the complete review

iWork is Apple's answer to Microsoft Office, it is relatively new to the market with just a couple of iterations but has the usual Apple look & feel. It is only available for the Mac OS X operating system(s), and has it's own proprietary file format, so doesn't work seamlessly with Office out of the box - although can be made to do so, just takes a couple of extra steps. There are three applications within the iWork suite - Numbers, Pages, and Keynote. Numbers is the spreadsheet application; the essential functions are the same as Excel, although Numbers attempts to do things in a more stylish way! You start off with a blank canvas, and then ...  Read the complete review