Pros/cons of using Microsoft Office vs. iWork

Soon I will be buying a Macbook, and I am trying to determine whether or not to have Mic. Office 2007 Home/Student or iWork installed? I wanted to know what people recommend or their opinions on either and which one works best and is user friendly with respect to compatibility issues with sending/receiving info to/from PC's? Thanks

It really depends on what you need to do with it. If you need to do presentations through Powerpoint then that will be difficult. Pages will transfer seamlessly for almost everything and so will Numbers. The issue with Keynote to Powerpoint is because Keynote is to advanced to Powerpoint and doesn't match with its transitions. For instance if you wanted to do magic move or text transitions on Powerpoint, you can't because Powerpoint isn't as advanced so when you export from Keynote to PPT it will not transfer those transitions. So you have to keep the transitions very minimal. I personally love iWork and think it is better than Microsoft's stuff (cheaper and better). But if the school requires Powerpoint stuff to be done on THEIR computers then you might want to use Microsoft's crappy stuff.
Here are the links for both...
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TQ744LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0OA&mco=MjE1MjQxOA
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB943Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0OA&mco=MzE3MTU2MA
Also if you order iWork with your macbook it is only 50 bucks, you can also always try the trial for 30 days and see how it works.

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