Microsoft holds out for the standard edition of Office 2008. The only thing missing is Exchange support and Automator support, which Student Edition ($130) which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage Suite, similar to the editions for Office 2004. The competition: Apple's iWork and NeoOfficeįor Office 2008, Microsoft has released 3 editions of the To suffer through ’s un-Mac X11 implementation or pony up any Unlike 2004, if you absolutely need an Office suite of some kind you won’t need
So it isn’t and can’t be a complete Office replacement in all cases, but it’sĪlso free, coming in at $80 cheaper than iWork and $130 cheaper than Office. Like iWork, NeoOffice is not at feature-parity with Office 2008
Has been hammered out over the years to give Mac users a third viable choice in Meanwhile the Mac suite port/fork, NeoOffice, Home users) but it’s leaps and bounds better than its predecessor AppleWorks,Įnough so that for the first time ever Microsoft has some real competition for iWork isn’t competitive with Office 2004 or 2008 on aįeature-for-feature basis (mostly because iWork is targeted primarily towards Chief among these changes is that Apple hasįleshed out what was just the Keynote presentation software in to the complete Office 2004, such that Microsoft is not only competing with itself as it was A lot has changed in the years since Microsoft released
