Maybe Apple (Jobs) made a deal with Microsoft (Gates) behind the scenes to limit iWork to prefer Office when Gates bailed out Apple with finances when Jobs came back to Apple in the late 90's when Apple was close to bankruptcy. Many Apple users (including myself) prefer the concepts and philosophy of Apples iWork suite (how it generally functions), but Microsoft Office is better for complex business and larger corporate activities now unfortunately. Microsoft Office is the best option for functionality and synergy.

The free version is adequate for most basic stuff and users.įor more complex applications, corporate synergy with the other apps in its suite and collaboration with others and teams etc.

SoftMaker Office is decent.but has its limitations of course. After the University years, they are use to Office, so they just continue to use it, including most jobs they go to after. Keynote actually (as many will say) is generally better than Powerpoint, though of course Powerpoint over the years has improved and is constantly increasing its functionality to be a ' go-to-app' now for presentations especially when Universities (and generally Educational systems now) ' train' students and almost demand them to use Microsoft Office.

I have checked out most options for others (over the years) also and this is an opinion:įor general usage: Pages, Numbers and Keynote is great. There are many options, it really just depends on preference, usage and demands really. I have and used all of the spoken options (including Libre office, Open office etc.etc.

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