OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) comes with Pages (Word), Numbers (Excel) and Keynote (Powerpoint). These "free" programs are quite adequate for most common needs. However I'm at a loss as to why I'm being told that there are updates available yet it's asking me to provide my credit card details to the App store just to get these updates. If I ignore the updates will I lose these programs on the next OS X release?
Apple introduce a new operating system every 18 months or less
It's been 11 years (10.2) since I've used a Mac again in earnest and my first comment with 10.10 was that the interface hadn't changed much. Indeed it has changed very much under the covers, but what a nice feeling to come back to something I already knew.