alt Hacker NewsI liked the way Pages 09 looked - it was beautiful - but the compatibility wasn't there. Modern Pages is hideous.
And you hit the nail on the head with the whole 'Office = the document always opens/looks right' thing.
I liked the way Pages 09 looked - it was beautiful - but the compatibility wasn't there. Modern Pages is hideous.
And you hit the nail on the head with the whole 'Office = the document always opens/looks right' thing.
It's not pretty, but both Pages and Numbers are pretty powerful in their modern incarnations. If you actually need Microsoft Office, then you need it, but a lot of people who don't think they could get away with just Apple's freebies probably could.
(Disclosure: I write 99% of my stuff in Emacs now, so I'm not going to go that far out on a limb for iWork. It's just that it's the best "Works"-style suite that I've used.)