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...the 75 percent of Mac owners that use the product This is the most surprising part of the article for me - that 75% of Mac users use MS Office. I actually f
by kylec 16y ago
...the 75 percent of Mac owners that use the product
This is the most surprising part of the article for me - that 75% of Mac users use MS Office. I actually find this pretty hard to believe, since none of the Mac users I know use it - they end up using a combination of OpenOffice, iWork, and Google Docs.
- ComputerGuru 16y agoThat's the problem with anecdotal evidence. For example, I personally don't know any Mac users that use OpenOffice or Google Docs... and all the ones I know use MS Word.
- kylec 16y agoI'll admit that perhaps my experience is not typical and certainly does not disprove the 75% number, but I'd still like to know how they came up with the figure
- scalyweb 16y agoI'll tangle this a bit further that all the users I know(a small population that I can number about 12) use some edition of Pages and a handful even still use Appleworks occasionally even though they are on OSX 10.6
- jseliger 16y agoDitto. My family does grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies (see http://blog.seliger.com http://blog.seliger.com if you're curious), and the only file type we can safely exchange with clients is .doc. It's also one of two file types funders build their systems around. As a consequence, I'm running Office for OS X and always have; my experience with the latest has, so far, been mostly positive, with a few niggling details: http://jseliger.com/2010/10/31/thoughts-on-the-new-version-of-word-for-os-x-2011 http://jseliger.com/2010/10/31/thoughts-on-the-new-version-o... . If I could, I'd probably use iWork or Mellel or something similar full-time, but Metcalfe's law is too strong in what I do for me to resist effectively.