“An interesting listing has just popped up on Amazon France, a manual (which appears to be in German) for Apple iWork 11, which includes Pages, Keynote and Numbers for Mac and iPad,” Jennifer Allan reports for Electricpig.
Allan reports, “The iWork 11 manual is listed as arriving in December 2010, which means the next iteration of iWork should be close…”
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I don’t think anyone “really” cares about iWork. Most business users will continue to use Office as long as it’s available for the Mac.
I don’t use Office anymore. Our business is 100% Microsoft free and stays like that.
Keynote is amazing and exports to video… It’s the poor man’s flash presentation maker. i can’t wait for the next version… As for the other Apps, I don’t think I have even ever opened them! LOL
-Pi
@ MooLatte
Um, I care. I haven’t used any MS products ever since iWork included Numbers. I can’t wait!
@moolatte
Not /entirely/ true. My place of employment uses iWork, and seems to like it well enough.
In a sea of familiar PowerPoint templates, my Keynote presentations are ALWAYS unique. In addition to templates with more style and elegance, Keynote offers transitions that are also more elegant and stylish. There is nothing that I needed done that could be done in Powerpoint, but could NOT in Keynote.
Not to mention the presenter’s dual display features. Powerpoint’s options are constricted and limited (no way to show current and next slides, side by side, at the size of my choice). Keynote has a setup that is by far more logical, convenient and, most importantly, flexible. I can re-size objects on that presenter screen, and that includes all of them, including slide notes, current and next slide, presentation timer, slide timer, clock, etc. I can also put them anywhere I want. Powerpoint is just way to limited there.
I only use Office on my Mac if I have to. Otherwise, I use iWork.
The only copy of MS Office I have is the old version X, which is ten years old and still works fine, believe it or not.
When iWork 11 comes out, I will be lined up (virtually, at the Apple online store) to get my copy on the next payday.
iWork-only in my family and many of my mac-using friends.
Yeah I got Office 2004 & 2008 and have finally decided to use them “for as long as they last” and get iWorks 11 and use Open Office too. I hardly ever even use Office anymore anyways.
I still have this nagging feeling Apple has Numbers & Pages uber-versions that are Office killers lurking in their archives waiting for the day MS stops making Office for Mac. Jobs/Apple will never be beholden to that Northwest abomination again!
Another intentional leak for free advertising…I remember the days of ThinkSecret and the Apple moles…
If iWork doesn’t work for you, then try the free LibreOffice before you succumb to some paid cr*p from Microsoft, starve the beast and it will die.
LibreOffice is the new cross platform name for OpenOffice since Oracle bought Sun and picking it apart for scraps, everyone is bailing out.
The original developers forked OpenOffice to LibreOffice, so search for your free cross platform, Office compatible office suite using the new name and site, as Oracle owns the OpenOffice name.
MDN word “same” As it’s the same thing, just a different name.
I am glad this story has appeared now. I just ordered iWork having not upgraded it last refresh. Maybe now I should return it pending the new edition.
@mooLatte
The most successful and most respected business in the world uses iWork & iWork only.
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before we all talk ofe iWork 11, does anyone know if iLife 11’s iWeb will be upgraded or will it be killed by Apple? it was iLife’s most original & practical app, a real productivity tool and different from british rival RapidWeaver. or could it be part of iWork 11, as it’s a productivity tool?
I have used Keynote since the day I got my Mac. It is leaps and bounds better than anything Powerpoint can do, and I have the feedback to prove it.
Pages is tricky. I was very hesitant to switch, as the look and feel of the app is different than MS Word, which I had grown up with since Windows 95. I kept trying to switch, then I went back after a day or two. Finally, I deleted Word so it wasn’t an option and went to Pages. 2 weeks later and I’ll never go back. For the first time ever, I was able to make a table IN my word processor that looked great, instead of having to fire up Excel to create one then paste it in. Fact is, Word has way more features than most (all?) of us need, while Pages does things much more smoothly.
Finally Numbers. What can I say. It’s not an Excel replacement. I tend to do my heavy lifting in Excel (the only Office app I still use) then paste it into Numbers to make tables and charts. Excel is great for calculating. But its output, in any way, shape, or form, looks like crap. Numbers solves that problem. It makes beautiful charts and graphs that I’m not embarrassed to put in front of people, or even use in a Keynote presentation.
All that being said, it took a while to transition, but for the most part, I’m an iWork user. Love the suite, and encourage others to give it a chance.
FYI: I have a feeling that the ’11 suite is, just like for the iPad, also going to be available on an app by app basis in the Mac app store on launch day, if the Lion preview was any indication. Could make for an interesting purchase for those on the fence for price.
Awesome
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Yay
@ MooLatte
We stopped using Microsoft Office 2 years ago. We only use iWork. If you care about Word macros, you are living in the age of WordPerfect and should stay back in the 1980s.
Sorry, but that’s the real truth.
99.9% of office users do basic stuff in Word and Excel that work better in iWork.
Truth hurts
… news! I’ve been using iWork since the beginning. Numbers, while a weak sister to Excel, offers way more power than my piddling needs require. Just six months ago I learned both the long and the short of the Sort function. Yes, I’m that slow. I’ve been using it to keep my records for over a year and … I’m that slow. I know I’ve pointed out that my wife, the Playwright, uses Pages on a daily basis. And yes, I still need to tweak things for her.
rolf, iWeb … got a huge update for iLife ’09, I’m also sorry they didn’t update it for ’11. Maybe next time. It came late to iLife, possibly as an answer to Rapidweaver, but not as a direct competitor. Rapidweaver is aimed more at the SOHO user while iWeb at the pure consumer. iWeb certainly makes it easy to create prettier pages, but offers other limits.
It would be wonderful if iWork 11 were coming out in December, but this is the same German-language book cover that was circulating a month or so ago.
9 to 5 Mac claims the picture came from Amazon.com’s French web site, but they didn’t explain why Amazon thought that a German-language book would sell in a French-language market.
Maybe iWork 11 is coming out in December. Maybe we have to wait for iWork 45 in December 2044. Right now, no one can know.
… something my wife discovered. She and her librettist were having problems with their formatting. G. would mail a file to M., output as “MS Word”, and it would come back subtly changed. Minor formatting things, like widows and orphans and the like. M. uses MS Word for Windows. We investigated and discovered that the same thing happened if you used MS Word for Mac instead of Pages. A little extra work on inserting page breaks could fix what ought not have been broken. Thanks a lot, MSFT!
The only useable version of Office on the Mac is Office 2004, before the dreaded ribbons. Unfortunately, Office 2004 requires Rosetta to run in Snow Leopard. I have a bad feeling that Apple, in their quest to toss legacy software overboard so the boat moves faster, will not include Rosetta in Lion. This is similar to PowerPC based apps being thrown overboard with Snow Leopard (or was it Leopard).
That means if you want to use Office in the future, you will need to upgrade to Office 2011 with its ribbon-based interface. Personally, I’d rather be sent to Guantanamo than be forced to use the new version of Word and Excel.
Thus, I really hope Apple beefs up iWork 11 so it can realistically replace MS Office in the workplace. Keynote is fine now and Pages can almost replace Word, once you get used to the very different interface. The problem is in Numbers which really needs bigger gonads to do some of the things that Excel does.
I wish I didn’t have to use Word. But as a recruiter, the world reads’n writes MS Word. I’ve tried Pages and various open source Word wannabes, and the sad fact is, tables and boxes and other Word unique formatting items get mangled on Macs.
I’ve switched from Pages to Word 10 and formatting is no longer an issue. I might not like but, but my customers only care about what’s easy for them, not me.
If Pages 11 goes from 99% to 100% compatible, I’ll switch back. Until them, I need to please my customers and stop being pig headed…
I think Apple will publish iWork along with the Mac App Store – so they can generate some attraction for the new shop. I’ll buy, my Macs are completely MS free…
I’m buying a new 27″ iMac early next year.
So I should have the ’11 versions then!
Everyone I know, hates office.. Mac or pc don’t matter. iWork is so much better than office, and cheaper. Sure you have to relearn where stuff is but so what.
Excellent! iWork is a toolset I actually use, unlike iLife, which I don’t use at all.
@Finland… I’ve been a Mac user since 1985 and never used Office, except for occasional formatting checks. I used WriteNow and Excel very briefly and got a cross-upgrade to Lotus 1-2-3 for Mac. Later I switched to ClarisWorks/AppleWorks and for the past few years ‘m all iWork.
Excellent! iWork is a toolset I actually use, unlike iLife, which I don’t use at all.
@Finland… I’ve been a Mac user since 1985 and never used Office, except for occasional formatting checks.
I used WriteNow and Excel very briefly and got a cross-upgrade to Lotus 1-2-3 for Mac. Later I switched to ClarisWorks/AppleWorks and for the past few years I’m all iWork.