Many of my readers know friend and PreviewCast regular Caitlyn Imburgo. She just got a brand new design up on her blog, which is great to see her blogging again. Today she posted a guest blog article that I wrote for her blog about a month ago which talks about how iWork ‘08 completely changes the game for Microsoft Office for Mac, and calls into question just how many people will be upgrading to Office 2008 when it comes out next year. Check out the article.

Tags: 2008, Apple, Caitlyn Imburgo, guest blogging, iWork, Microsoft Office, productivity

No, I’m not talking about the next season of new cars. For one thing, I wouldn’t call 95% of the cars out there “worth it”, mostly because their gas mileage would make any non-American laugh with their fingers pointing, and for another thing, I really don’t care about cars anyway. Nevertheless, yesterday, Apple released iLife and iWork ‘08 (along with some other new stuff, which aren’t the focus of this article), which Steve Jobs claims to be their biggest updates ever to both releases. But after spending a couple of hours today following the announcements through Engadget’s live coverage, rubbing my eyes all over the Apple.com website, watching demo videos and tutorials, and all that stuff, I’m ready to judge for myself if iLife and iWork ‘08 are really that substantial, and if they’re each worth their respective $80 upgrade price.
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