apple computer ships with trial Microsoft Office?

i just notice something; in the apple buy computer page; there is no mention of office under the included application list. does this means that new macs dont ships with trial Microsoft Office anymore? :yay:

 

That would be sweet!

 

I just unboxed my MBP last night, there was no Office Trial.

 

there is no office 2008 trial. So i would expect that goes for apple too.

office 2004 had a trial, downloadable online. So thats why that was there.

I dont understand why 2008 has no trial, but im sure itll only be a few more months.

 

its not really a big deal. the trial stuff didn't come preinstalled. you could just delete the folder and it was gone.

 

Do new macs still include an iWork 08 trial?

 

if not all you need to do is download it.

 

Same Here .No iWork 08 or MS Office 08.BTW I unboxed my MBP 3 weeks ago

 

yay! at last apple comes to its senses; now we can say; apple computer comes with no junkware/trialware installed

 

there was trial MS office on MBP before? I never had one.

 

Thats pretty cool, one less thing to do when you get your computer. It looks like there is no trial of iWork either now, just iLife and the standard Leopard stuff like Safari and Quicktime. So now you get a completely clean slate when you get your system right out of the box!

 

None of the iMacs, MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs that I set up at my store had either of them on them.

 

A really good decision on 's part. The iWork demo is downloadable from the website anyhow; and there exists no office 2008 demo.

 

I dont think its an apple decision in the first place, since no 2008 trial exists, yet.

 

That's what I said. It's their decision not to include iWork, of which a demo does exist. (The wording was clumsy originally, sorry)

I might even suggest that iLife doesn't come pre-installed, but on a seperate dvd----so that users can pick the components they want to install. Perhaps they're concerned that this would lead to piracy, though.

 

gotcha now.

i tried the iWork stuff, it was ok, but i hated having to "export to doc", something i bet they change eventually.

i bought 2008, and havent looked back, its fine for what i need it for.

 

I think at some point (soon) I'll need to get office2008, ONLY because of compatibility issues. (Otherwise, I'm *mostly* happy with NeoOffice)

I really like the interface on Pages; and the formatting/styling capabilities are just perfect. Since you have used both, can I ask whether Word is as straightforward as Pages, when it comes to formatting/styling? I'd especially like being able to add bullets and numbering the way one can do that in Pages.

From the (annoying) demo video on the MS website, I get the impression that they've been inspired *at least by the way Pages is marketed*, that is, mostly as a really nifty formatting tool.

 

word is comparable. Not exactly like pages but pretty good...

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I'm a little surprised that they took off iWork 08 trial. That was one of the reasons for trying it which lead me to actually buy it. I don't think I would have downloaded it.

Having said that, I did eventually switch to Office 08 and I'm very happy with that. Anyone want to buy my iWork 08 licence? j/k

 

i too went from iwork08 trial to office 2008. it was worth it to have no compatibility issues, and to not have to "export to .doc" EVERY FILE!

 

Any place to download Office 08 Trial copy.I wanna try it before buy

 

^ A trial version doesn't exist.

 

Well, I get that same annoyance with Office 2007/2008 as well...having to always deliberate change to Doc files, because by default its Docx and most computers are still running older versions of Office that can't read Docx.

 

You can change the default save format under preferences for word.

I guess MS Office doesn't really need a trial version----they set, and keep changing the industry standard every couple of years; thus anyone who works in an environment where documents are at all shared has to buy and keep upgrading their products.

I just got Office today, luckily at the fraction of its regular cost thanks to a university license. I have to say that I'm not terribly impressed overall. To begin with, the clunky installation sequence re-introduced me to MS inelegance. MS Word by now looks quite at home within OSX; yet in certain dialogue boxes, menus, etc. there is something amiss. As to functionality, one cannot deny of course, that it's the most powerful word processing program available----yet, I had the impression using Pages, that it perhaps took fewer clicks to do things. I still have to figure out how to define a few simple paragraph styles I use often, and assign them to the toolbox. (The styles I set under one document are not available under others; and I still have to decipher the "Styles..." tab on the dropdown menu.) On Pages, the whole process took perhaps 2 mins; and I was able to assign keystrokes to styles.

So, anyhow, now I won't get jumbled up pages when someone sends me a .doc; and I'll be able to share documents in a format other than pdf. Great.

 

Are you guys really having compatibility issues with .doc in iWork? I have not run into one yet. Maybe the stuff I see has little formatting to it.

So far after a semester's use, I can't be happier with iWork. All I really need is basic stuff though. The only compatibility issue I have had was with a Works file that even Office in Windows could not open. Heck, even the Works viewer did not open it. Other than that it has been smooth sailing for half the price.

 

^ I deal with really simple formatting as well. While Pages (as I used the trial version) did a better job than NeoOffice in opening doc files, I did experience several annoying distortions nevertheless. The worst case was a certain manuscript by a professor that refused to display correctly (i.e., was unreadable) on any program but Word. Previously I'd ask friends who had Word to convert such files into pdf so that I could read them; then I decided to get the program myself.

Certainly I would have preferred to use Pages----well, if it were polished enough already, I would have loved to go on with NeoOffice, but, again, full compatibility is the key word.