Minor annoyance is start taking forever – I guess it is because (unlike under XP/Vista) OS-X does not preload shared components (and does not eat up memory just to make Office appear start snappier).
#Open office versus neooffice windows#
It also installed whole bunch of fonts, which I did not really want – but I guess to provide 100 % compatibility with Windows, it may be a good idea to include same set of fonts as Windows office has.Īfter installation, Office 2008 works reasonably well. All questions asked were related to what Microsoft needs to know (serial number), with little regard for users interest. Guess what: Microsoft installer, as many times before, knew better what I want and did not give me a chance. I absolutely wanted Word and Excel, was not quite sure about Powerpoint (because Keynote is sooo much better), and certainly had zero interest in Entourage and Microsoft Messenger. I indeed was not too great experience, starting with installation.
#Open office versus neooffice mac#
With Office 2008, I was not having very high expectations regarding user experience on Mac and I have to report that Microsoft did not disappoint. After few weeks, here is my impression and very brief comparison of all three mentioned suites. So I had to take a deep breath and installed Office 2008. On top of that, it just does not feel right and is kinda ugly. It spoils different set of features than iWorks, quite often works well, but it cannot be trusted. I tried to use OpenOffice/NeoOffice which suffers from the same malady. Especially those spreadsheets which project manager-ish people so love to create. Unfortunately, almost is not the same as everything: it often breaks fine details of formatting, reviewer comments and does not really work for more complicated Excel spreadsheets. iWork gives you reasonably good compatibility with Office document formats, which means that you can easily import almost every Office document modify it and export it back so that Windows user will see almost all of your changes. Which inevitably means much higher exposure to documents creation, collaboration and exchange. In past two month I was involved much more interaction with the requirements, business analysis and project management part of the process. It somehow better matches the way I am thinking and does much better job than Office to get me from idea to acceptable looking rendering of that idea in the form of document, spreadsheet or presentation. I was happy user of the iWork Suite 08 since I moved to OS-X.