Office 2008 for the Mac, meanwhile, is now scheduled to be out next January, missing not only the back-to-school market but Christmas.Īpple claims that iWorks '08 can also open and save all Microsoft Office documents, including the new XML-based ones created by Office 2007 and the future Office 2008. The updated suite also has its release timing - the back-to-school season - going for it. With it, Apple hopes to finally catch up to Office on its home turf, while "creating an insurance policy" should Microsoft ever decide that hurting iMac sales by retiring Office would outweigh Office's booming Mac sales, Swenson said. "The fact of the matter is that most everyone that has been switching to the Mac has been buying Microsoft Office," said Chris Swenson, an NPD analyst.īut with its third version of iWork, Apple has belatedly rounded out the suite with a long-rumored spreadsheet app called Numbers.
Moreover, revenue from Mac Office sales has grown at an average annual rate of 73% in each of the past five years.
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The lack of a spreadsheet, along with Office's general ubiquity, explain why iWork has made little headway against Office despite its $79 price - about half that of the cheapest version of Office.Īccording to NPD Group Inc., iWork held just 16% of the Macintosh office software market as measured by copies sold in retail and e-commerce stores in the past 12 months in the U.S.
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