[X4U] iLife '08 and iWork '08

[Judi Sohn]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>>
>> On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>
>>> Worse, there is
>>> no sign of an iWork '08 demo.
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial/
>>
>> --   
>> Rod
>
> Sweet!  Thanks!  Hopefully it won't refuse to work since I've had  
> the trial
> version of the previous version of iWork installed.  Though even if  
> it won't
> let me save or print I should be able to see if it will do what I'm
> interested in.

I've been playing with the demo for the past 30 minutes. So far, I'm  
quite impressed and I haven't even tried Keynote yet. I've been  
bouncing back and forth on documents between Word 2003, Word 2004 and  
Pages and the documents are translating between the applications  
quite nicely. Pages '06 seemed to be a page layout program that had  
word processing features. Pages '08 gives the word processor its due.  
Pages is fast and smooth and I can definitely see using it as my all- 
around go-to word processing app...at least until Word 2008 is  
finally out for consideration.

Numbers is not bad, but I don't think I'm going to get as much use  
out of it. Like Pages '06, the emphasis seems to be on style over  
substance. It may just be me, but 90% of the time I'm in Excel it's  
just for crunching numbers. I don't have to worry about how the data  
looks, as long as I can get it the calculations working correctly so  
I can import the data into another program. Nothing wrong with it,  
just doesn't match what my work process requires.

If you haven't upgraded to 10.4.10 and/or Quicktime 7.2 yet, do that  
first. You'll get an error message if you try installing the demo  
with anything less.