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

[John Grøtting]

I agree that Office has some amazing tools for the enterprise.  
However, I believe that Office is often used in instances, where  
iWork would suffice. Interestingly, the upcoming version of Office  
does "borrow" a lot of ideas from iWork.

John Grøtting

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Am 29.11.2006 um 14:55 schrieb 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
>
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