Apple: the G,B,& U

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Apple has decided to go it's separate way from MicroSoft.
MS "Word" is (supposedly) replaced by "Pages" and
MS "Excel" is (supposedly) replaced by "Numbers" and
MS "PowerPoint" is (supposedly) replaced by "Keynote"

Good#1: These replacement "apps" are free and automatically updated.

Bad#1: Pages ver 5+ will not open or save as RTF documents !
What is wrong with those people... where is Steve Jobs when you need him ?

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Very late to the conversation, but my laptop only today flagged that I can 'upgrade to Mavericks free!'. Lamplighter, are you saying that Mavericks will only provide/recognize Pages as a word processing app, Numbers instead of Excel, Keynote instead of Powerpoint? Egad.

My iPad always and only has had Pages as a document creating app. It's worthless, like former Mac word processing apps. As for the other apps - it took me enough time to become barely proficient with Excel. All of my presentations are in Powerpoint, and all of the hospital/university computers are PCs. If Mac has decided to make these office apps incompatible between platforms henceforth, that's a HUGE mistake.

I've always been a happy Mac user but if I can't use Microsoft Office, that's it for me. I'll continue using the old OS and Microsoft-compatible software until it crumps, and then it's PC for me.