iWork for iCloud highlights productivity suite update
iWork is getting down to business in the cloud.
During an announcement-packed Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Tim Cook took a few moments to talk iWork, Apple’s collection of productivity apps that hasn’t seen an update on the Mac side since 2009. You’ll have to wait for a little longer for new versions of iWork for Mac and iOS, but when they arrive later this year, they’ll come with a third version—iWork for iCloud. The completely Web-based version of iWork will allow users to view and edit documents right from a browser window.
The new service, demoed Monday by Apple vice president Roger Rosner, works on both OS X and Windows, and is compatible with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Google’s Chrome, and, of course, Apple’s own Safari (which is getting an update of its own later this year). The user interface of iWork in the Cloud closely mimics that of its iOS and Mac counterparts, providing the same trio of apps—Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
As with the current version of iWork and the now-shuttered iWork.com, this new service will let you view documents that the native version of the productivity suite have synced to iCloud. For the first time, however, you will also be able to create new documents, edit existing ones—even those created by competing apps, such as Microsoft Word—and continue to synchronize them to the cloud, thus making them available for access on your devices.
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