WasabiJane | The blog and portfolio of Lisa Eldred » microsoft http://wasabijane.com Being the intellectual and theological musings of a rogue rhetorician Sat, 12 May 2012 15:46:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Why Microsoft Continues Going Strong http://wasabijane.com/2009/why-microsoft-continues-going-strong/ http://wasabijane.com/2009/why-microsoft-continues-going-strong/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:09:37 +0000 Lisa http://wasabijane.com/2009/why-microsoft-continues-going-strong/ One of my clients is pretty heavily reliant on Macs. This is fine by me… when I’m in the office. But it’s kind of difficult to look at Keynote files from my home PC.

Keynote, to the unaware, is an excellent presentation program. It’s part of iWork, which is Apple’s answer to Microsoft Office. Keynote is the parallel to PowerPoint. In fact, it’s *better* than PowerPoint (though to be fair, I haven’t had a chance to experiment with PowerPoint 2008).

And yet: PowerPoint wins, I argue, because Microsoft makes Office for Macs.

Seriously. Keynote is great. Why can’t Apple make it for Windows machines? To force people to buy their computers? Wouldn’t their software stand a better chance of competing against Office if they were cross-platform?

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