IWork.com
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iWork.com is an online service by Apple complementing the iWork
suite of office productivity software
. It was released as a public beta on January 6, 2009 at the Macworld Conference & Expo
. The iWork.com service provides a web interface for viewing, downloading, and commenting uploaded documents. In contrast to cloud-based
office applications such as Google Docs and Windows Live Office, it does not offer editing.
This service is unrelated to the Documents in the Cloud
service intended for wireless document exchange between the desktop and mobile versions of the iWork suite.
, Keynote '09 presentations, and Numbers '09 spreadsheets
. Users can download documents in both Microsoft Office
and PDF
formats, in addition to their native iWork formats.
. Viewing, commenting, and downloading require only a web browser and an invitation to view the document.
IWork
iWork is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. The first version of iWork, iWork '05, was released in 2005. The suite originally bundled Keynote, a presentation program which had previously been sold as a standalone application, and...
suite of office productivity software
Office suite
In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a collection of programs intended to be used by knowledge workers...
. It was released as a public beta on January 6, 2009 at the Macworld Conference & Expo
Macworld Conference & Expo
Produced by Boston-based IDG World Expo, Macworld | iWorld is a trade-show with conference tracks dedicated to the Apple Macintosh platform. It is held annually in the United States, usually during the second week of January...
. The iWork.com service provides a web interface for viewing, downloading, and commenting uploaded documents. In contrast to cloud-based
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
office applications such as Google Docs and Windows Live Office, it does not offer editing.
This service is unrelated to the Documents in the Cloud
ICloud
iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from Apple Inc. announced on June 6, 2011 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference . The service allows users to store data such as music files on remote computer servers for download to multiple devices such as iPhones, iPods, iPads, and...
service intended for wireless document exchange between the desktop and mobile versions of the iWork suite.
File formats
iWork.com supports uploading of Pages '09 documentsPages
Pages is a word processor and page layout application developed by Apple. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the Mac OS X & iOS operating systems. The first version of Pages was announced on January 11, 2005, and was released one month later. The most recent Macintosh version,...
, Keynote '09 presentations, and Numbers '09 spreadsheets
Numbers (software)
Numbers is a spreadsheet application developed by Apple Inc. as part of the iWork productivity suite alongside Keynote and Pages. Numbers 1.0 was announced on August 7, 2007 and thus it is the newest application in the iWork Suite. Numbers runs on Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" or newer...
. Users can download documents in both Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...
and PDF
Portable Document Format
Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
formats, in addition to their native iWork formats.
Requirements
Uploading documents to iWork.com requires a copy of the iWork '09 software suite and an Apple IDApple ID
Apple ID is an authentication system that Apple Inc. introduced for many of its products, such as iWork, the iTunes Store and the Apple Store. Apple ID serves as an all-in-one account that allows users access to a variety of Apple’s resources...
. Viewing, commenting, and downloading require only a web browser and an invitation to view the document.
See also
- List of online spreadsheets
- List of word processors
- List of presentation software
- Comparison of office suites