iWork or MS Office for your Mac?
 

Which do you use for word processing, spreadsheet and calendar? How is one better than the other?

I use OfficeMac. No problems. My son swears by Mac's Pages.

Thanks. Both software programs are on sale right now at college bookstores.

I use Office.

It's not a "port" of the Windows version.

It's written native for OS X.

I use Office. :)

I use NeoOffice. Free & Compatible.

NeoOffice here too.

Though I find myself using Google Spreadsheet (or whatever it's called) a lot lately.

One more vote for NeoOffice, although it is a port of OpenOffice.org, the next version of OO.o will have a native Aqua interface, etc.

You guys that use mac office and other off brands, do you run self contained operations or are these 100% compatible with MS Office and thus your customers/Vendors?

Mac Office is not an off brand. It IS MS Office. Don't forget that Office for Mac is the original product, MS Office came after;)

The Open Source alternatives are generally considered to be 100% compatible but in reality nothing ever is.

Had a really severe f'up wit a developer that was using Open Office. Tracking changes did come over properly and we lost months of running changes to some documentation.

I was referring to iWork or whatever it's called. I know that MS makes Office for Mac (which you and I agree is not 100% but damn close. I thought iWork was their alternative.

FWIW it's not a brand pride thing, just a realistic question. If I sent my customer a file from iWork and they had a problem they would jump down my throat and rightly so about messing with what works.

And sold 100,000 X as much.:D

I'm using OpenOffice on my Mac now that you don't need X11 to make it run. Compatibility with MS Office has been fine so far.