Interesting factoid from a former Apple designer, buried in a NYT piece about the tablet deluge at CES: Apple’s “spent the past couple of years working on a multitouch version of iWork”. Man, would that make the Apple tablet unfun. [NYT]
Here’s a fix for the trojan you may have picked up while dipping unprotected into murky pirate waters for a bootleg copy of Apple’s iWork ’09.
This may be a first for the Mac software world, and it’s not cool at all: ill-gotten copies of iWork ’09 circulating on Torrent sites contains OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is something you don’t want.
While the tech-world’s focus on Microsoft over the past week has largely surrounded their massive Windows 7 beta, the Redmond giant isn’t just sitting back and hoping that the new OS saves the company. Their other cash cow, Microsoft Office, is also undergoing some code renovation and according to some slides spotted at CES, is looking at a release next year.
If Wired, TUAW and Macrumors are independently reporting a Mac Mini is on its way, we know it exists. Evidently, we’re just not going to see it at Macworld. So what about other rumours?
Just as rumoured last week, Apple is taking iWork ’09 online, with file hosting and group editing services. Think of it as MobileMe, but for your documents. And that’s not all.
9 to 5′s latest Apple rumour is that the iWork suite, Apple’s Office competitor, is going to the cloud.
There’s no better sign of Microsoft’s increasing acceptance of the Mac population than the latest version of Office for Mac 2008, the first Office with native support for Intel-based Macs. Like its Mac-side predecessors, this Office has its own interface and tools, many which aren’t found on the PC. But whatever you use to create your PowerPoint presentation or Word doc, it will be 100% compatible with the 2007 PC Office edition. We’ve known it was coming for a while but now it’s officially en route, hitting most retail outfits on January 15th at three key prices. We’ve been playing with the beta for a few weeks, too, and so far it’s a smooth ride.