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Apple News: Apple tries to calm stormy iWork waters with pledge to restore 18 features Apple today responded to complaints from Mac users over features dumped from iWork, promising to restore 18 of them to the productivity suite in the next six months. While some customers applauded the news – “I’m doing the Snoopy dance…” admitted cosmofromwatertown today on an Apple support forum – others remained disgusted with Apple. “The…

Apple News: Will Apple’s free iWork for iOS impact Microsoft? Apple introduced the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c during a media event earlier this week, but those weren’t the only big announcements of the afternoon. The Cupertino company also announced that it is making its iWork suite—which includes Pages, Numbers, and Keynotes—absolutely free for its new iOS device users. The free iWork offer also includes other applications such as…

Apple News: Apple’s iWork for iCloud.com beta now available to all users Any user who logs in to iCloud.com will find browser-based beta versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote — Apple’s iWork suite — are now available to test. Apple has been gradually rolling out iWork availability, first to developers and then to some select users. But now, as of Friday, any user with an Apple ID who logs into…

Apple News: Apple Is Hiring Up For Its Microsoft Office Killer When Apple introduced the iPad in 2009, it rolled out its own suite of Microsoft Office-like applications. It had “Pages” for word processing, “Numbers” for spreadsheets, and “Keynote” for presentations. Since Microsoft never rolled out a version of Office for the iPad, each of those three apps sold well for Apple. Pages is the most popular paid app of…

Apple News: Apple updates iWork for iOS and OSX If you are one who uses iWork instead of Microsoft office to work on documents, presentations and more, then you may want to pay close attention – Apple’s iWork has been updated to version 9.3, this allowing iWork for Mac to support iWork for iOS 1.7 apps. If you have installed Apple iWork on your Mac via a disc, then you…