[X4U] MS Office 2008 delayed

[Art Amolsch]

Odd. I'm a professional newsletter publisher, have been for 31 years.
Started using Macs when the Mac Plus came out -- one whole meg
of RAM! For many years, we've been preparing everything from
news copy to invoices using the $15.00 word processor Tex-Edit.
Works great, updated from time to time for free (Although every
couple of years we send the developer another $15.00; it's $15.00
for goodness sake).

It will save text in more than a dozen formats, including MS Word.
It has every feature we need, plus some. Final text copy goes into
InDesign (Pagemaker was fine, but after Aldus sold it to Adobe,
Adobe abandoned it for OS X).

If we really need a high-end WP, we switch to Nisus Writer.
It's really handy for opening Word docs that other people send
us without going through an intermediate step like MacLinkPlus.
Open in Nisus Writer, select all, paste into Tex-Edit and get
back to work.

I've never understood why some people need Word. But maybe
that's just me, and I'm really missing something.

MacBook Pro, 1Gb RAM, 10.4.10

> When someone offers a word processor for the Macintosh that is as  
> full-featured as Word, and folks switch to it in droves (thus  
> making its file format a de facto standard), I'll happily switch to  
> it.  (As I did to WordPerfect/Mac when it was available.)  Until  
> then, Word is the only truly high-end word processor available for  
> the Macintosh.  And, as a professional, I'm going to be using the  
> best tools available.  For now, that's Word.  I don't see any  
> alternatives on the horizon.