Does Mac book come with Word, Excel, etc.

[swimman]

Looking into surprising my wife with a Macbook. We have always used Windows based systems but I think it's time to try out Apple. Does the off the shelf Macbook come with Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint or is this an add on program?

Thanks.

 

[Juan Largo]

MS Office is not included for free.

 

[Bman]

its available for $150 ($149 and change)

 

[cuhnool]

No, but you can always get NeoOffice or other free word processing suites, if you don't want to buy Office '08. Just a suggestion, though. I would prefer Office '08 but since I have to pay for my own things... yeah

NeoOffice (<--clicky!)

 

[louishen]

Also have a look at this thread

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113353&highlight=iwork+office

 

[Juan Largo]

Open Office (free) is equivalent to MS Office:

Word = Writer
Excel = Calc
PowerPoint = Impress
Access = Base

You can import MS Office files into Open Office and save files in Open Office as MS Office files. You might lose a little formatting, but the two sets of files are over 90% equivalent.

Download OOo here: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/

 

[tsturbo]

You may want to checkout iWorks '08 which has a word processing program, spreadsheet program and a slideshow program. I am choosing not to give microsoft anymore of my money.