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iWork.com beta page is up
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
From Apple:
A new public beta, web-based service from Apple that lets you share your iWork ’09 documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in a way that’s both simple and smart. Experience iWork.com. To get started, buy iWork ’09
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Cloud Computing: Apple vs. Microsoft
The Apple Core —
... Both Apple and Microsoft rolled out the beginnings of a cloud computing strategy on Tuesday. Apple introduced a beta of its iWork.com document sharing service and Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit unveiled Document Collaboration Companion for Mac Beta. At the Macworld Expo keynote, Phil Shiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, announced the beta of iWork.com as a trailer of its ...
Apple's Entry Into Online Office Apps Is Confusing, Laughable
Wired: Epicenter —
Apple has decided it's time to get into the online office documents game. Too bad the company doesn't quite understand the rules.
Rather than directly compete with popular web applications like Google Docs that let collaborators edit documents online, the company's new online offering requires documents to be downloaded before they can be changed.
Apple announced iWork.com, a new online component to its iWork suite of office productivity tools, during Tuesday's Macworld 2009 keynote address. iWork.com is available as a free public ...
iWork ’09
Daring Fireball —
... Another good overview of new features, with a separate page describing iWork.com. You know it’s a Web 2.0 because it’s clearly labeled “Beta” right in the logo. ...
First Look: Numbers ’09
Macworld —
... 10) to any other, such as binary (base 2) or octal (base 8). Cells can now also have custom display formats, in addition to the formats provided by Numbers. You can also create a password for a spreadsheet that users will be required to enter before opening the sheet, and there are more sheet features, such as freezing rows and columns, and filling up and left in addition to down and right. Finally, like the rest of the iWork suite, Numbers ’09 includes integration with the beta of Apple’s iWork.com web-based application —but we’ll have more to say on that in a future article. ...
iWork 30 Day Trial Now Available for Download
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
... . The trial includes the whole iWork package: Pages '09 (word processing), Numbers '09 (spreadsheet) and Keynote '09 (presentation). The new iWork.com will allow users to distribute data online so that anyone can view the iWork files, regardless of platform. Colleagues can also download PDFs to work on the files locally, so that users can do work remotely. iWork.com beta is currently free, though Apple plans on charging for the full version. Until then, ...
iWork.com: Apple Takes a Bite of the Cloud [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... and perhaps the most pertinent release for web workers was the beta launch of iWork.com, Apple’s foray into web-based office productivity applications. ...
Apple releases iWork 09
Download Squad —
... All three iWork applications have seen updates, and Apple has also announced an iWork.com Public Beta allowing users to view and comment on iWork documents. ...
Apple iWork 09 and iWork.com Public Beta Released
D' Technology Weblog —
... Apple has also announced an iWork.com Public Beta allowing users to view and comment on iWork documents. You can download ...
Apple drops copy protection from iWork ‘09
The Apple Core —
... are using the iWork ‘09 trial version and decide to purchase the fully-functional version of iWork ‘09 I haven’t found out where to get said serial number, so I instead installed the full version of iWork ‘09 from the installer DVD over top of the trial version. Can we read into Apple’s decision to drop serialization from iWork ‘09 that Apple may eventually freely distribute the productivity suite with every Mac? Perhaps Apple will instead move to charging for the online component, iWork.com .
MacVoices #972: Josh Clark Discusses His New Book, “iWork ‘09: The Missing Manual”
MacVoices —
... dimension that iWork.com adds, and why it all combines to make iWork ‘09 “dangerously fun.”
Links:
Chuck Joiner on Twitter
Josh Clark on Twitter
Global Moxie - Josh’s web site
Global Moxie Blog -
iWork ‘09: The Missing Manual by Josh Clark
iWork ‘09
Endnote by ResearchSoft
iWork.com
Hey Apple: It’s Time for Eric Schmidt to Go [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... companies that don’t have overlapping revenue.
Well, Google doesn’t really make any revenue outside of advertising, so there’s no risk of overlap there. But they are competing with the following:
Android vs. iPhone
Google Chrome OS vs. Mac OS X
Chrome vs. Safari
Gmail vs. MobileMe
Picasa vs. iPhoto/MobileMe
Google Calendar vs. iCal
Google Docs vs. iWork.com
Schmidt began recusing himself from meetings at which the iPhone was ...
Microsoft Office Web Apps Get Tech Preview — iPhone Version Coming Later?
The iPhone Blog —
... ’s Web Apps really raising the bar (and bringing the competitive pressure), it’s not surprising to see Microsoft pushing back. And, hey, maybe Apple could get in the game and start doing something more interesting with iWork.com as well… ...
iWork.com Enhanced, Does Anyone Care?
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Back at Macworld Expo in January 2009, Apple released iWork '09 and announced the beta of iWork.com, a Web-based service aimed at giving iWork '09 users a way to share files online and perform limited collaboration (see " ...
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