[IxDA Discuss] Critiquing the Office 2007 (was Re: Microsoft tolicense Office 2007 UI system)

[David Malouf]

To me comqring iWork to Office is comparing apples to oranges.

Office is an Enterrise class suite which has to have a much more robust set 
of features. Items like merging, track changes, form building, excel 
integration, DRM, etc for most of us are not what we need but in the 
Enterrise it is totally necessary.

IWork is for the small business user with limited needs. I mean you have to 
buy Office anyway just to have Excel. I can't imagine my life w/o excel. 

Then there is the often used ability to build applications on top of office 
suite products that include workflow and CMS and CRM productivity tools. 

The legacy burden for office is so intense. It is just a comletely 
different design context qnd so the solutions should be different.

I'd loe to be in a mqc world, but my environments and my contexts continue 
to be in the enterprise (for me and my users) ... For Enterise comuting 
there is really no option here as Mac has ignored the enterprise and 
instead focused on personal contexts.

Dave