Does windows or mac make a difference in this scenario?

I work for a small educational institution planning to produce some of its own material into print format. The final products have the following characteristics:
Either small A5 booklets (staple on the spine) or thicker books (perfect/glue bound down the spine)
Either printed in the office (for small batches) or sent to a professional printer (+ binding for large batches)
Content language range from English to Spanish to Chinese.
Content format is mainly bw text (like a novel), with the occasional tables and bw graphics (made by outside graphic designers)
I'm conversant with computers, but have no experience with professional desktop publishing. Here are a few questions in my mind:
Do we really need to invest in InDesign? Our requirement seems to be achievable using Microsoft Word (as it is now) - except I don't know how well Word interacts with printers for large batch printing.
How different would InDesign be on Windows and Mac? Obviously the interface may be different given the characteristics of the OS, but will there be substantial advantage of one OS to another in the professional printing world?
Thanks in advance if you have any advice/opinion/thoughts!
tim

Understanding that I do work for Adobe (and have for over twenty years) and that I obviously have a vested interest in people buying copies of InDesign, let me take as honest a stab at answering your two major questions:
(1)     If you have no real experience with professional desktop publishing, you will find a fairly steep learning curve for InDesign and all of its features. It is not a word processor and some things which may be fairly simple to do if you are fairly good with Microsoft Word may seem very difficult in InDesign. Not that they can't be done, but there is more discipline and factors involved in using this type of software. It is oriented towards serving the needs of those who need to design and execute graphically-rich content for professional publication. Yes, you can type a simple "memo" (remember what those were?) in InDesign, but the overhead of doing so especially if you really aren't at all familiar with this type of software can be quite high. At the same time, you could conceivably use Microsoft Word to do some fairly sophisticated publications, but doing so not only tests the limits of that software, but also your patience and willingness to hack around software limitations. In terms of what you describe as large batch printing, my advice would be the same for both Microsoft Word and InDesign. Create a PDF file from the document and then print the resultant PDF file from either Adobe Reader or Acrobat. If you are going to a commercial printer, that printer will probably appreciate a PDF file (fonts embedded of course) as opposed to a bunch of source files, whether they be Word or InDesign.
(2)     Assuming that you use either OpenType (either TrueType or Adobe Type 1 - CFF flavoured) or TrueType fonts for the document, Windows or Macintosh is fairly irrelevant in terms of how InDesign works, including the vast majority of its user interface. Contrary to what many Macintosh fanboys would have you believe, InDesign (and for that matter, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, and other Adobe Creative Suite applications) work at least as well under Windows as on a Macintosh and you can go from one platform to the other without having to learn anything really new. Once the printer has your PDF file, it doesn't make a bit of a difference what platform InDesign was run on!
In conclusion, you actually seem fairly satisfied with your current Word-based workflow and your documents are really not graphically-intensive. Until such time as you have such needs and the time to learn InDesign, you might be best off staying with Word. For printing from either Word or InDesign, I most strongly recommend that you create a PDF file and print from that. The PDF file should be in logical page order, single copy. Any imposition or booklet-making should be done either in Acrobat/Reader or at the print device itself.
          - Dov

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