“I go to trade shows with a mission based on my view of what matters, which oft times yet entirely by chance fails to overlap with what everyone else considers important,” Tom Yager writes for InfoWorld.
“Consider my take on Macworld Expo. I think that the headliner there, although Mac heads will be loath to acknowledge it, will be Microsoft. It’s been four years since Office for Mac, the one piece of software that every professional Mac owner must have, has felt its creator’s touch. The new features in Office 2008 for Mac are almost incidental. Office 2008 is Universal, meaning that it runs natively on Intel and PowerPC Macs. Microsoft came by that honestly, using Xcode and Objective-C, accumulating expertise along the way that has made the developer staff blogs of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit one of the very few I check out regularly,” Yager writes.
MacDailyNews Take: Tom’s gotta lay off the egg nog. There’s no way that Microsoft’s Office for Mac will be the headliner for Macworld Expo. Footnote, maybe. Give Apple’s free 30-day iWork ’08 trial a try today!
“Lest you think that I’m writing about Officeworld Expo, Macs built on Intel’s Penryn 45-nanometer Core 2 CPUs will roll out at Macworld. I’m selfishly hoping that a Penryn MacBook Pro will be first out of the gate,” Yager writes.
Yager also wants an eight-core Xserve, OS X Server virtualization sans GUI at the flip of a switch (or click of a button), and thinks that “the iPhone will be a star attraction as well.”
Yager predicts, “The 3G iPhone will make its bow,” which, of course, puts the kibosh on his belief that Microsoft will be Macworld Expo’s headliner. Yager also thinks that we might “see a hint of the iPhone/iPod Touch software development kit (SDK) that Apple plans to deliver in February.”
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The iPod started slow and grew.
The PS2 started fast and grew.
The Newton started slow and died.
Who knows what will happen to AppleTV but it does have the stink of death around it. Apple can’t afford to wait 4 years for things to take off like they did with the iPod, there will be 100s of millions of media centre consoles in the market by then and the race will be over.
@Tenderisthemind
Macintosh without Office is like Tiger Woods without mascara.
Trust me. Microsoft would be as big a hit at MacWorld as Pat Robertson at a gay pride parade.
<I>Office for Mac, the one piece of software that every professional Mac owner must have<I>
20 years, never used it yet. Never will.
You can too, just think instead of conforming. If you don’t start, you’ll never get rich.
@ Glossy Hurts My Eyes!
That’s right stop conforming. Go out and buy an iPod, an iMac, an iPhone, some iTunes and have a happy iLife.
Its strange. I hate using MS Office on a PC – but I rather like or don’t really mind using MS Office on a MAC. Am I the only sick-o that feels like this?
IDon’t, let’s get married. R u a male or female? I really don’t care.
I’m not ready for marriage. Plus, I only have sex with vegetables – no fruits or nuts.
Well, the big news with Office is that it will support Exchange. I guess that’s a first, and pretty big news for Mac in network settings.
@student…agreed, the lack of Endnote reference manager compatibility for Pages is a deal-breaker in academia…come on developers!
The new Office suite is a non-starter for anyone working on a Mac in a cross-platform office. The lack of Visual Basic means I’ll be staying with the previous versions and using Apple products more and more as the old MS apps fade away.
“I go to trade shows with a mission based on my view of what matters…”
“I think that the headliner there, although Mac heads will be loath to acknowledge it, will be Microsoft…”
The inference he’s making here is that Microsoft ‘matters’.
Doesn’t he realise the days of Microsoft ‘mattering’ or being relevant to the future of the computing industry are long gone?
In my workplace we now have a policy of ‘no more Office licenses’, we make do with NeoOffice on the Mac’s and Open Office on the PC’s.
This is the future – the only thing Microsoft’s got left is Vista, and we all know the way that’s heading.
The article states, “[T]he programs are still Carbon, rather than Cocoa.” I don’t exactly understand what this means to me as a Mac user.
Does this mean that Office For Mac 2008 will operate more slowly than it should or could? Does this mean that it will still have to operate using Rosetta, as my Office For Mac 2004 does?
Because Office For Mac 2008 is Carbon and not Cocoa, what will it be able to do and NOT do?
And why would Microsoft build Office For Mac 2008 to Carbon rather than Cocoa standards? Is it easier? Does is cost less to do so? Does it take less time? Are there any tactical or practical reasons — rather than strategic — for doing so?
@newton
EndNote place holders can be inserted into Pages documents by drag-and-drop, my preferred method anyway.
Once finished, save your Pages document, sans images, as RTF. Start RTF scan in EndNote, voila.
There is no CiteWhileYouWrite, but that feature, IMO, is utterly annoying in Word. You add a citation, and it takes half a minute to register.
Reopen in Pages and add the fricking figures.
I finished three manuscripts with iWork’08 and EndNote9 in the recent weeks. No problemo!
Tried iWork ’07 and recently ’08. While nice first and second efforts, they’re still not even close to being good enough to replace MS Office.
Looking forward to seeing how Office::Mac ’08 will turn out.
MS Office? Hardly.
I use it maybe once a month to import/export some accountant’s files.
NeoOffice
to those who don’t use Office and prefer iWork…you’re drinking the iSoup again, aren’t you?
Quit conforming to anything that has a fruit in its name. Use the best software for the job. That doesn’t mean it has to have an “i” in its name.
>DJ wrote: MS Office? Hardly. I use it maybe once a month to import/export some accountant’s files.
Seems foolish to spend at least $120 on MS Office to use it once a month. Did you buy it or pirate it? If you use it only once a month, try NeoOffice and sell your copy of Office::Mac, assuming it’s a legitimate copy. That’s of course assuming that you’re even telling the truth.
Yeah, Office will get its 15 seconds of fame.
But what would be headliner worthy would be if MS/Apple struck a deal to pre-install Windows as a build-to-order option. Some of us need windows on our mac… MS WON’T do that, IMHO, because the view a mac running windows as a loss not a gain for them. What stops Apple from just doing it itself (like any other hardware maker) is the licensing terms which are impossible to sign if you make a competing OS.
I know most of you hate windows beyond belief, but the ability to run Windows eliminates the #1 reason to not buy a mac and is allowing me to consolidate all my computing on a MBP.
And if you’re Apple and you believe in the superiority of OS X, having it running side-by-side with Windows is a beautiful thing. And if you were MS and you believed in the superiority of Windows, well, you make it availabe VERY cheaply to run on macs so people would switch to windows.
And since I know there are Windows fanboys in the house… why doesn’t MS do that now that Apple has opened the door for them to convert mac users so easily???
(these last thoughts amused me much)
two weeks and iget my iphone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To the person who wrote…
to those who don’t use Office and prefer iWork…you’re drinking the iSoup again, aren’t you?
Quit conforming to anything that has a fruit in its name. Use the best software for the job. That doesn’t mean it has to have an “i” in its name.
Everything that has an “i” in its name is usually great software. I would much rather be drinking the iSoup rather than the Kool-aid from Microsoft!