You Can Now Download and Install Apple iWork Suite for Windows PC
Apple has recently launched developer preview beta of its famous iWork Suite for Windows users via iCloud in competition with Microsoft Office. The users will be able to use iWork through their browser. Now, you don’t need to have Apple’s hardware to use visually-appealing its iWork Suite. Here, I will include the method to use iWork Suite on your PC, while reviewing its fabulous features.
iWork works in a pretty much similar way as the desktop app on OS X or on the iOS app on your iPhone. The apps are in preview phase at the moment, and will be unveiled for more users at a later stage. The software will give tough competition to Microsoft Office because it is very easy to use. You can easily format and create attractive documents without even having sufficient prior knowledge about using the software. Moreover, as the Microsoft is moving towards cloud, it is required to optimize further for touch.
Dec 13, 2014 If you bought a Mac from 2013 on, you can download the iWork suite of apps — Pages, Keynote and Numbers — from the Mac App Store absolutely free. Apple has opened the beta of its iWork for iCloud application suite to Windows-only users, letting people without an iOS device or OS X-powered Mac create an Apple ID needed to access the Web apps. When you download and set up iCloud on your Windows PC, your photos, videos, mail, files, and bookmarks are accessible on all of your devices. Both Microsoft 365 and iWork offer real-time collaboration for people to work on the same document together. What makes Apple stand out is the tie back to its free pricing. As any Mac owner can download iWork, collaboration becomes incredibly easy. For anyone to really collaborate in Microsoft 365, you need a paid subscription. Download Apple iWork for Mac to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Excel and Outlook suite. Microsoft Office 2011 Google Workspace. The iWork suite of applications is thought to be made with the prosumer market in mind with simplified features found in Microsoft Office for Mac, or the open source Libre Office software. The iWork applications also have touch screen support and compatibility with the iCloud software.
To download and install iWork Suite for your Windows PC, you need to register with iCloud first of all. After that, you need to log into your iCloud account from your browser in PC or Mac. Launch the iWork app that you want to use. All created documents will be saved in iCloud so that you can access them anytime from any machine. Any changes will be reflected in other iOS or Mac devices synced with the same iCloud.
iWork works perfectly for Apple’s Safari browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome browser. The great ease with iCloud at core is that you don’t need to send huge documents to others now. You just need to send iCloud link to other and other people can easily view and edit documents.
Very few people know that they can download latest version of iWork for free in 2017, officially.
When I started looking for downloading iWork on my recently bought macbook pro, it was all confusing. I went to the mac app store and it didn’t show any free option to download the iwork apps (including pages, keynote and numbers by apple). If you had the similar situation too, then this article is just for you!
What is iWork?
iWork is a suite by apple, just like office 360 is a suite by microsoft.
Apple Iwork
iWork includes:
- Pages
- Keynote
- Numbers
How to download latest iWork for free officially
So if you’re wondering how to get pages for free on mac or why is keynote not free on my mac, you will be able to get free keynote for mac free download, full version (not trial) by the end of this tutorial. In fact you’ll be have iWork for mac free download, full version again, not the trial one.
However, we’ll have to start with the iWork 09 trial here. But don’t worry, we won’t be needing to purchase iwork at all, neither do we need to use the iWork 09 serial number :) So lets start!
1. Download iWork 9 from apple and Install
First of all, we need to download iWork 9 from apples server. Why apple server? to confirm that it’s an original version not any hacked or altered one!
Download link for iWork 9 :
(Edgesuite.net is an Akamai network CDN, used by Apple).
Once downloaded, install the iWork 09 on your mac os system.
2. Run Any one app from iWork
This step is optional in my opinion, but listing here as I did so.
You can launch Pages by apple by going to Applications > iWork ’09 and simply click Try instead of buy. It will ask for your email id. I entered my email id and unchecked the option to receive emails from apple though.
3. Launch App Store and update iWork 9 to latest version
Iwork 2009
Sounds pretty simple right? Simply launch app store and it will show you an option to update iWork apps separately (Pages, Keynote and Numbers). Simply click on update button next to each item or click update all.
Note that you need to quit the opened iWork applications (that we did in last step) to continue.
Note that we need to quit the app and click continue. Do NOT click on skip keynote or page or numbers (any app that’s open).
4. Delete old iWork 9 and use latest Pages, Keynote and Numbers
Confirm that the latest iWork apps, pages, keynote and numbers are installed in your applications folder. You might see both latest apps and also the iWork ’09 folder in your applications folder.
Download
If that’s so, we can simply delete the old iWork 9 apps and continue using the latest iWork apps that we just downloaded for free!
This method to download iWork for free (including pages, keynote and numbers) has been tested and verified by me on my macbook pro running MacOS Sierra (December 2016, should work perfectly in 2017 too).
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