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Don't get it. - Version: 4.1, 5/25/2008 12:19PM PST
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Ancient_Boii_Tribe
I have Office 2004 & 2008. I haves Pages, Keynote AppleWorks, and many many others, and all for free, so I don't see the point in this.
Has the world moved on? - Version: 4.0, 10/10/2007 06:15PM PST
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tkzero
While I appreciate the original intention of icWord, it seems like the world might have moved on from needing this. We're now in a situation where entire suites such as OpenOffice and NeoOffice can be installed for free, Keynote (formerly a single application costing $99) has become the iWork trio, and Microsoft offers a free trial of Office.
They are of course entitled to charge what they like, but these days it seems like $30 (icWord + icExcel) might be a bit much for a reader/converter that doesn't handle Office 2007 files, when the full-blown iWork is $79 (and it's only $79 only if you decide to keep it beyond the trial). If you just needed to convert a batch of files, you could simply use the trial and just make sure you're done in the 30 days (although that's also true of the icWord/icExcel trial versions, but iWork would allow corrections/adjustments to be made).
In a way, this seems to parallel compression software such as StuffIt - we seem to have outgrown it due to new alternatives and feature additions in existing software. Indeed, Panergy seem to have lost interest in maintaining it. I would suggest they reconsider how they provide this product; possibly using it as a loss-leader (free or very cheap) to draw people in to their other products. At the moment there's little compelling reason to use it.
They are of course entitled to charge what they like, but these days it seems like $30 (icWord + icExcel) might be a bit much for a reader/converter that doesn't handle Office 2007 files, when the full-blown iWork is $79 (and it's only $79 only if you decide to keep it beyond the trial). If you just needed to convert a batch of files, you could simply use the trial and just make sure you're done in the 30 days (although that's also true of the icWord/icExcel trial versions, but iWork would allow corrections/adjustments to be made).
In a way, this seems to parallel compression software such as StuffIt - we seem to have outgrown it due to new alternatives and feature additions in existing software. Indeed, Panergy seem to have lost interest in maintaining it. I would suggest they reconsider how they provide this product; possibly using it as a loss-leader (free or very cheap) to draw people in to their other products. At the moment there's little compelling reason to use it.
"icWord® 4.1 enables you to work with Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® PowerPoint, NisusWriter and AppleWorks files created on both PCs and Macs - without the original application! icWord® lets you open, view, print, convert and use Word, PowerPoint or AppleWorks files. icWord® works with systems Mac OS 7.1 through Mac OS X version 10.5."
This is a bit different from what is currently on the VT page.
About PowerPoint:
"**(no transition effects or audio support)"
IOW, despite the vague use of 'view' in the description of this app, it is NOT actually intended as a PowerPoint presentation viewing application. Instead it is just a bare bones PowerPoint file editor.