PC Magazine hands-on with Apple iWork ‘09: ‘Innovative suite certainly looks impressive’ – January 08, 2009 PC Advisor reviews Apple’s : Handy and convenient tool – January 13, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald reviews Apple iWork ‘09: 4 out of 5 stars – January 26, 2009 T3 reviews Apple iWork ‘09: New features well worth the price – February 03, 2009ĬNET reviews Apple iWork ‘09: An emerging powerhouse worthy replacement for Microsoft Office – January 30, 2009 PC Magazine: You’ll find a lot to like in Apple’s iWork ‘09 – February 07, 2009 TrustedReviews: Apple iWork ‘09 a capable, less expensive alternative to Microsoft Office – February 19, 2009Īpple’s iWork sports impressive features, gives Microsoft Office a run for its money – February 17, 2009 Microsoft releases Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 – July 20, 2009Īfter attempting to belittle Mac users, Microsoft tries to sell them Office 2008 with free trial – April 14, 2009 MacDailyNews Take: Do you really need Microsoft Office? Give Apple’s free 30-day iWork ’09 trial a try and find out for yourself. Microsoft’s “solutions” can be found here. It seems that Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit awoke long enough to concoct laundry list of workarounds while users of Mac Office 2008 SP2 wait for Microsoft to release an update in August. “Maddeningly, this issue appears to affect different Macs and their users inconsistently.” “MacWindows is reporting that Office 2007 (ie Windows) Open XML formated documents (.docx), presentations (.pptx) and spreadsheets (.xlsx) cannot be opened by Macs running Office 2008 after applying the SP 2 Update from last week,” Carlson reports. Redmond’s recommending that users roll back to an earlier version in order to restore compatibility,” Ronald O. “Various sources, including Microsoft, indicate that PC created Open XML formated files cannot be opened after applying last week’s Office 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2).

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