[Brammy]

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Goodbye and good riddance to Microcr*p Office. They can release it in hell for all I care now. 99% of people won't even blink to Office demise.

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I work in an MS Office heavy shop with a standard document template (I'm a tech writer) that has caused any program other than Office (PC or Mac version) to barf.
It's a step in the direction, but I'm leery of what can happen with a lot of import and exports to documents. I'd feel a lot more comfortable if it could just open and save Office files natively.
I might get it for my casual Word Processer needs, but I expect I'll be getting Office 08 to get the Intel version of Word.

[bastion]

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With these enhancements and the addition of Numbers, iWork seems to be maturing into a credible alternative to Office.

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I've just been waiting for a credible alternative to AppleWorks.

[Brendan_McKinley]

"There's two languages I speak: English and bad English." (name that movie!)

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Bruce Willis said it in The Fifth Element.

[hautster]

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"There's two languages I speak: English and bad English." (name that movie!)

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Bruce Willis said it in The Fifth Element.

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Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

[Brendan_McKinley]

Yes! Claris Resolve can now finally rest in peace.

[k88dad]

This is the news of the day.

[d00d]

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That great gasp I heard was about a million Mac users who have been dreaming of change-tracking for eons! This is great news!

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I was one of them. I'm thinking now that I'll just drop Office all together. I have v.X and was planning on purchasing 2008 (don't want the Rosetta instability and memory overhead anymore), but why bother? Between track changes support and the inclusion of Numbers, I have no motivation to buy Office.
I have no use for Entourage, the latest delay is bordering on absurd, and the software costs far too much (perhaps Microsoft's biggest cash cow). I'm no Microsoft hater, but enough is enough.

[tiffer]

One thing Word has going for it that is not in Pages is full integration with reference/bibliography manager programs like Endnote. This is important to us academic types. Keynote has made amazing inroads in the science/academic community, because one can put together a sharp talk without dealing with the bloat that is ppt. I doubt Pages will do the same without integration with reference/bibliography managers.

[oaktownman]

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I freak out over bad English

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I due two.

[graxspoo]

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I've just been waiting for a credible alternative to AppleWorks.

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They'll need to add draw, paint and database modules before they get my money...
Anyway, it's goodbye AppleWorks, hello NeoOffice, for me.

[MrLucky]

Good news or very good news...depending on how truely it imports/exports MS Office docs.
Now, if Mail, iCal and Address Book would cooperate more closely, I'd be set!
As a journalist, my job is all about gathering multiple documents, contacts, pictures and research materials into projects with deadlines, and nothing does that as well as Outlook (Entourage does it but I'd never trust that app with my professional life).

[rlav]

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One thing Word has going for it that is not in Pages is full integration with reference/bibliography manager programs like Endnote. This is important to us academic types. Keynote has made amazing inroads in the science/academic community, because one can put together a sharp talk without dealing with the bloat that is ppt. I doubt Pages will do the same without integration with reference/bibliography managers.

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I agree. The thing these days is that alternatives such as Mellel are so much cheaper than they used to be. Even Nisus isn't too expensive. It would be great to have one piece of software that does it all, but I've just come to accept that I'll use Pages for anything artistic, and Mellel or Nisus for academic papers. And no doubt there will also be occasions when Word will still be necessary.