
I very much doubt any iWork users will move to Microsoft Office. The previous price of iWork is no where near the cost of Microsoft Office, and those who previously choose to use Microsoft Office in preference of iWork may still choose to do so.
APPLE TEXTEDIT CHANGE MARGINS MAC
The bottom line is, of course Apple won’t loose any customers, how can they? It’s free! You are correct again people will not be put off buying a Mac because pages may not be powerful enough for them, although you talk as if a Microsoft Office was the only office suite available for the Mac, when that clearly isn’t the case.

Although you talk as if a Microsoft Office is the only office suite available for the Mac, when that clearly isn’t the case. You are correct again, people will not be put off buying a Mac because Pages may not be powerful enough for them. 9 out of 10 Pages users will find Pages 5.0 is an unmitigated triumph! Some guy’s third-party macros no longer work. MacDailyNews Take: No Pages 5.0 is not an unmitigated disaster. But sooner or later, I will have no choice but to switch to something else.” They have actually removed many features for no apparent reason other than to bring the application in line with its iOS counterpart, which is, inevitably, much less powerful… I guess that, for now, I will continue to use Pages ’09 with all the customizations that I have painstakingly created with AppleScript and Keyboard Maestro. Igot writes, “They have not just neglected to add features to bring the feature set of the application closer to that of a word processor like Microsoft Word. But Apple’s engineers appear to have chosen to keep the emphasis on ‘simplicity’ at the expense of ‘power.'” “I realize that it must be hard to maintain the right balance between simplicity and power when you try to add more features, more customizability, and so on. “It certainly is not intended for people who, like me, appreciated the combination of simplicity and power that was the hallmark of previous versions of Pages,” Igot writes.


“They have taken what had evolved into a rather decent word processor / page layout application and have eliminated so many useful features that it effectively is now a piece of useless junk, and I honestly have no idea for whom this latest version of Pages is intended.” They really have done it, haven’t they?” Pierre Igot writes for Betalogue.
