New product, maybe MWNY or MWSF, !Productive!
Awww... silly rabbit. Appleworks is for kids!
!Productive! = Word processor + Spreadsheet + Project Planner + Presentation Software + "Tight integration with X Address Book, Inkwell etc" + Full read/write compatibility with M$ Office + highly collaborative across LAN/WAN/WEB (+ shared drive space 'a la iTools' to get your business started with document sharing outside your network)
This 'new-code-base' suite will be initially bundled with the new powermacs and Ti's as a limited time promotion to get the ball rolling. Pricing will be in the $200US range. This frees up apple's platform as essentially independent of MS (anyone ever use MS media player on a mac???? really Im curious.)
Apple can choose their own course since IE is only a formality on the mac. Many browsing alternatives exist and I believe we will see a (basic) mac browser from apple soon as well. Not too much to scare away other browser developers but enough to get someone going on the web with the essential features. Let opera and iCab duke it out for the power-browsers.
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!Productive! = Word processor + Spreadsheet + Project Planner + Presentation Software + "Tight integration with X Address Book, Inkwell etc" + Full read/write compatibility with M$ Office + highly collaborative across LAN/WAN/WEB (+ shared drive space 'a la iTools' to get your business started with document sharing outside your network)
This 'new-code-base' suite will be initially bundled with the new powermacs and Ti's as a limited time promotion to get the ball rolling. Pricing will be in the $200US range. This frees up apple's platform as essentially independent of MS (anyone ever use MS media player on a mac???? really Im curious.)
Apple can choose their own course since IE is only a formality on the mac. Many browsing alternatives exist and I believe we will see a (basic) mac browser from apple soon as well. Not too much to scare away other browser developers but enough to get someone going on the web with the essential features. Let opera and iCab duke it out for the power-browsers.
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(anyone ever use MS media player on a mac???? really Im curious.)
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I've tried to install it in OS X, didn't work, I'm guessing since it was on UFS, although it didn't install on my HFS+ volume either. So I tried, but didn't care enough to get it to work
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Maybe, do you have any glass pipes and small glass viles lying around?
It sounds cool, and would be something to untie Apple from MS, but does anyone really believe that would be good for them? I mean doesn't everyone use Office?
If they did have something like this it would hae to be COMLETELY compatable with Office, and MS could possibly sue...
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Maybe, do you have any glass pipes and small glass viles lying around?
It sounds cool, and would be something to untie Apple from MS, but does anyone really believe that would be good for them? I mean doesn't everyone use Office?
If they did have something like this it would hae to be COMLETELY compatable with Office, and MS could possibly sue...</strong><hr></blockquote>
OpenOffice (Windows, Linux and soon for X) pretty much reverse engineered the format. MS didn't sue. AppleWorks is also compatible, did MS sue Apple when ClarisWorks 5 was released?
Yes, I run it occasionally on 10.1.5 .... need it for some things and Real won't port to X so ...
It works .... like all MS products ... it's functional but not ellegant ...
Here's hoping all steaming media suppliers will see the light and provide QT compatible streams ... there are still a few who don't.
a new version of AppleWorks
Apple should write a QT for Windows that isn't ass first.