[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by aryayush

1. Every Mac comes with iWork ’08 bundled by default; and
2. It’s a trial version limited to thirty days because they are a business and need to make money. Expecting an office suite to be bundled with an operating system, specially one that only costs $129, is just plain cheap.

It’s not like Linux and never will be. You may see that as a disadvantage; I certainly don’t.

For your information, office suites are some of the most basic apps ever in an operating system. Its as important as a Media Player or a Web Browser or a File Manager. These are four components no modern day OS can live without.

What do you mean an Office Suite with a 129$ is plain cheap ? If its anything over 20 dollars its got to have features, understand that.

One more funny thing is this: if they don't want to bundle their own Office Suite, why not bundle some other office suite like Neo Office ?

Other companies like Novell do that. They release versions with both commercial and free software, and mix these up to change cost of ownership.

And please stay on topic
Thats why I reduced size and altered colour.