Microsoft Is Not Necessarily "The Dark Side"

The Mac User who uses Microsoft Office is NOT a traitor but one who either was a Windows User or a Day One Mac User.

In fact, a Mac user with Microsoft Office Experience does see the difference in the styles of the two versions. MS Office 2007:Windows looked like MS Office:Mac 2004. Then again, MS Office was 1st introduced on Mac and not Windows. For you see, Microsoft has an intense Mac History as well as its' history in Windows. Watch MS Office:Windows 2010 mimicry MS Office 2008:Mac. Having used both Windows & Mac versions of MS Office, whatever is seen as new on the Windows side, has already been run on the Mac side.

Microsoft is as much a part of the Mac footprint as well as Windows, but I prefer lower cost alternatives, which get the job done just as well as MS Office. iWork '08 gets it done for me at $80, so WHY should I pay between $150 & $400 for a productivity suite. There is even Neo Office for free, which as one application, pays tribute to that venerable application of multiple uses, Appleworks 6.

You can save that MS Office money for something more valuable. And you will still be productive, without spending half the GNP of Micronesia. And you'll thank those of us who use alternatives, which are just as useful.

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