moonerhoosier

I've been stuck using Microsoft Office on PC for 15 years. I am a recent Mac convert because I had it with Microsoft's half-baked, poorly-executed garbage that they can never seem to get right. After downloading Excel for the Mac (1GB app, just for Excel, mind you -- talk about bloat), my expectations were tempered. If Microsoft can't write apps that work reliably on their own OS, after 30+ years, it only makes sense they can't do it on Mac either (even though it was originally made for the Mac). And sure enough, they proved themselves right. Excel is just as much garbage on the Mac as it is on the PC. At least they are consistent.

Seriously though, $150 for this garbage, alright I get it. People are stuck using it, I get it. I'm sure they too have wasted hours and days either trying to get it to work, or recreating work that it lost. It's a sad state of affairs that Microsoft has become the accepted standard. My experience in using a Mac again has been nothing but joy -- except when I need to use a Microsoft app. So why in the world doesn't Apple make a seriously competitive office suite anymore? I tried using Numbers, it's just not there. MS wants $150 for this garbage. I'd pay $500 for an Apple office suite if it was designed by the same team who does macOS and I could get to lunch time without losing work or having something stop working.

Seriously Apple, get on it. I know I'm not the only one so sick and tired of Microsoft shoving coal up our orifices and making us feel like we're getting diamonds. It's getting the point of being 'priceless' to have a good alternative to MS. The FOSS stuff is fine but it just doesn't have the polish Apple can do. Unlike MS, Apple actually thinks about the work flow from the user's point of view. I'm about to change careers if I have to use MS Office much longer, especially with the path they are going. I'm an IT manager and I have to deal with 50 peoples' problems, so I see it all. I got so sick of it, my company wouldn't buy me a Mac so I bought one myself. I would love to be able to completely cut ties with MS.