On the heals of the “broken” Office 2011, Apple is preparing to release a new version of it’s own application suite, iWork. Via Appleinsider.

“The next major revamp of Apple’s iWork productivity suite is finished and ready to go, but the company may hold back the release until it gets around to launching the Mac App Store early next year, AppleInsider has been told.

People familiar with the matter say development of iWork ’11 wrapped up this fall and the software was initially slated for an introduction alongside iLife ’11 last month, but was held back at the last minute for undisclosed reasons.

Apple’s revised plans currently call for the company to launch the new productivity suite alongside the forthcoming Mac App Store, these same people say. The applications included in the bundle — Pages, Numbers and Keynote — will be available for purchase individually when the Mac App Store debuts.”

This welcome. I like Pages and especially Keynote, the best presentation software in town. But what I like to see is Apple bundle iWork with a email/calendar solution as well. Now that would rock!