I was finishing my JSP 103 final project today when I noticed that iwork 09 dropped the flash export capability that iwork 08 had. This really threw a wrench in my plan since a flash presentation would probably be the best cross platform format I can show my presentation in for my Intermediate japanese class since I’m not too sure if my professor has quicktime. My presentation has a movie file in it so if I export to powerpoint, the movie might not show. None-the-less, I exported it to powerpoint just to have a back and up and tried opening it in Powerpoint. It kept on freezing and freezing and when I reinstalled it, it took almost 3 minutes to open it (around a minute just to load powerpoint alone).
I’m actually contemplating on uninstalling Office 08 all-together now as I find that iWork can more or less do most of the things that Office can do. The only thing holding me back is the Word audio recordings and certain Excel functions (that I might never use anyways). I never really liked entourage and the whole package is starting to become just a big resource hog. Any thoughts on Office 08 vs iWork 09?