If Microsoft get abuse for not complying to open standards, then how come Apple get away with it.

For the last few days I’ve been testing Apples ‘Pages’ - and it’s a lovely piece of software, much, much nicer to use than Office, or OpenOffice, except for one thing.

When you save a file, you can save as:

Pages

PDF

Word

Text

That’s it ! no open office formats. And the same goes for importing, just Word or Pages.

And thats not all, when you cut and paste rich data, like tables,the structure is lost. So where in NeoOffice or Mac Word I can paste a table structure into an email and it keeps the layout, with Pages, the layout is gone. It pastes as plain text only. 

So Pages is great if you want to just work with Pages, and not send files to anyone, or email content, or save it in an open format.