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iWork on Windows


Tex, I like the direction you're thinking, and your speculation on Safari as trojan horse for Cocoa on Win is interesting.

But I find it hard to believe big corporate installs would consider swapping out the mission-critical MS Office suite for Apple's iWork, which is, frankly, an inferior product (Keynote is debatable, Pages and Numbers are not), just to save a few bucks. Ditto Outlook, especially given Apple's failure to integrate in any reasonable or sensible way, their mail, calendar and

IMO, if they were going to make that leap, they'd be looking not to Apple, but to Google and the web-apps. That's where the real competitive pressure will come from, IMO. I regard iWork as more gimmick for hard-core Macheads than serious entry in the space.

Clearly Apple's energies have been directed to the iPhone platform and the core OS. Frankly, it's hard to see the roadmap for web services (.Mac), iWork and iLife. Doesn't seem to be much vision or strategy there.