| | I'm going to nerd out a little.
I've been an Mac user since 2003, and I can pretty much rock anything Apple. The current setup on my work computer (Intel MacBook, 2.4gH, 4 GB RAM upgrade-- I love my company for buying me this) has the four desktop spaces, VMWare Fusion with a Windows XP virtual machine, and Adobe CS3.3, and I have pimped it out just the way I like it.
My specialty is worming my way around Microsoft. Not that I hate the company or anything; I just refuse to admit there is something I can't do on this computer that Windows users can.
Okay, okay, I actually REALLY hate Microsoft for producing mediocre software and changing it every year so it's not compatible with anything. Microsoft Office 2007? Okay, great, maybe everything needed a big redesign, and you liked the giant top border with picture-button-menu-bar-things. Fine. But I can't read anything created in Office 2007 with my older version of Office because you changed the file format? Kind of annoying.
Oh, wait. You made a compatibility pack for those of us who don't want to buy new software.. Oh, it only works on Windows....
Actually, that's okay, I understand. That's why I run Windows XP on this computer. I believe that Microsoft shouldn't have to cater to Mac and vise versa. A lot of software carries over, and I'm thankful for that.
However, as a Mac user, my only option is to buy Office 2007 unless I want to spend the rest of my days requesting that people save another copy of their powerpoint in the old format, and THEN send it so I can read it. This also contributes to the Mac ill-will, "just buy a PC, you self-centered hipster" sentiment because it means more work for the PC user and clogs up his folders with additional copies of his documents.
Cathy Gives the Finger to MicrosoftI was two keystrokes away from buying Office 2007 for Mac when I read a bunch of pitiful reviews about it. This is what lead me to look at iWork more closely.
Long story short, I was won over to iWork by one feature, and one feature only: text wrap in the Word Processor. Although the cool-ass picture frames and the fact that it read and saved in MS Office 2007 format helped a lot. If I decided I didn't like it, I still had Office 2003 as a backup, right?
But lo, there is a problem.... Errors keep showing up when I import Powerpoint slides. Errors that say "Calibri font not recognized" and then screw with the spacing on all the slides. This looks especially bad when a guy asks me to print his slides off since he's not hooked up to the printers yet, and I'm all, "oh yeah, I can totally do that from my Mac. Check out this Keynote program in iWork. I totally bunked the system and got iWork because I hate Microsoft, and I know what I'm doing, and I'm awesome blahblahblah. Oh wait, it effed up all your slides. Sorry, man."
Ok, whatever. I'll jerry-rig his slides, print them off, and go find this "Calibri" font on freefonts.com.
OH WAIT, it's a font Microsoft created SOLELY FOR OFFICE 2007 and I CAN'T GET IT ANYWHERE WITHOUT PIRATING IT OR PAYING $35. I don't like to be a pirate at work because my company looks down on those things. Well, geez, I guess I just can't get by without Office 2007, and I'm just going to have to bow down to Microsoft if I want to be compatible wit----
Wait, I forgot I'm smart.
*logs into Windows XP virtual machine*
*downloads compatibility pack for Office 2007, even though I don't even have Office in the virtual machine*
*navigates to Windows Explorer*
*searches fonts folder*
*drags and drops Calibri fonts onto Mac desktop*
*deposits Calibri fonts into Mac fonts folders*
*opens Powerpoint document made in Office 2007 with Calibri font*
EFF YOU MICROSOFT HAHAHAHAHAHA
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| | Posted 4/3/2009 5:27 PM - 25 Views - 6 eProps - 3 comments
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