But as hard as Microsoft has tried to catch up with iPads in the tablet space, the company’s new direction has them launching full-featured versions of its most popular productivity software.Īvailable for full purchase (starting at $139) or through a subscription model as Office 365 (as low as $6.99 per month), the software suite includes longtime PC favorites Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, as well as OneNote, the company’s note-taking app. Microsoft Office: Alright, that lovely writeup on iWork aside, Microsoft Office is still how (most of) the world gets down to business.
And even better, for people who bought Macs after September 24, 2014, they’re free. With crisp, clean interfaces, intuitive controls, and cloud-syncing capabilities, these apps make it easy and (almost) enjoyable to get work done.
IWork: For a long time, the big knock on Apple computers was that they didn’t support Microsoft Office - and once they did get the software, the Macintosh versions lagged behind their PC brethren.īut if you’re still holding those opinions, you missed the news ten years ago when Apple released iWork, a suite with three apps (Pages, a word processor Numbers, a spreadsheet application and Keynote, a presentation program) that gets down to business, Steve Jobs-style.
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