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New Office for Mac to Come Next Spring, Office for iOS Not Arriving Until Fall 2014?
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I absolutely hate it. Word crashes all the time (my machine is clean and state of the art). I'm currently working on a complicated document and the thing crashes about once an hour.
I also have iWork, but it just doesn't have the chapter controls that I need. Sadly there still is no good alternative in business for Word. I would jump in a second.
OK, so four years later after the iPad was introduced.
Either way, folks may not want to edit documents on an iPhone or iPad, but they certainly want to view them. Yes, there are lots of other apps that have filled in the holes in the meantime (Dropbox, Goodreader, the built in iOS apps have some native support for Office documents, etc.) but Microsoft could have jumped in quicker with apps that compete with iWork. They could at least have been making a few bucks in the past 4/7 years.
My point is that it's illogical to jump all over Microsoft regarding not porting Office to iOS when Apple took its own sweet time with porting iWork to iOS.
Especially so when you consider all of the cruft in Office that needs to be ported...
How about making iWork compatible with Office stuff so when we save it we can open with Office programs at school, Numbers seriously needs a updated it does not come close to Excel.
Also, would be nice to have more accounting programs available for Macs or else I would have dumped my Dell notebook long time ago.
Also, would be nice to have more accounting programs available for Macs or else I would have dumped my Dell notebook long time ago.
The lack of accounting software is almost criminal at this point.
If I were in charge of Apple, I'd be seriously incenting some companies to develop software for the Mac.
* They have the spare change these days
* Some of the missing elements (like accounting) are keeping people from switching completely
Question is, when will Apple be good enough to give us an updated iWork?
And, yes, I do use it on my iPad.
Apple have never been good at supporting their software ... To the point, like with iWeb, where they just discontinue it because they can't be arsed!
I work for a copywriting and copyediting company with end clients such as Mercedes, Sony, Hitachi, Yahoo, Google, Volvo, Chrysler, Sharp, Shell, etc.
For years, everything was done in Word.
Now we only use Scrivener and Pages.
Not a sign of Word or Office anywhere to be seen.
We're all waiting for the iOS version of Scrivener.
For years, everything was done in Word.
Now we only use Scrivener and Pages.
Not a sign of Word or Office anywhere to be seen.
We're all waiting for the iOS version of Scrivener.
Yes the iPad has managed to integrate into businesses, but not for its Office-Suite capabilities.
Office, within the context of the iPad, is relatively irrelevant. We can call it nonsense all we want but the iPad will continue to sell by the millions without a blessed Microsoft Office suite and that's a fact.
We actually have to instal parallels, WinXP and Outlook for our secretarial staff to get outlook to work properly because Entourage then Outlook on the Mac was just a steaming pile of horse manure.
Thank god we have a MS site licence so they dont get any extra revenue from us having to do this
After the newness wears off, Surface, as with Windows 8 in general is a POS. Or should I say Pain in the Ass. The back and forth between Metro and desktop is absurd...The form factor is not as good as the iPad either. As someone who makes a living with Microsoft products, I am not impressed. Waiting to port Office to iOS negates at least $4 billion in profit. Smart move Balmer... idiot...
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My guess is they're delaying the release for iOS in hopes that they'll be able to salvage Windows RT.
And MS is making customers wait for the Windows RT version of Office too! They are taking their time in releasing Office for their own platform... What are they thinking?
oh come on 2014? i want microsoft onenote for Mac
You and me both, however there is a company right now who has a onenote reader and creation tool for the iPad that works great and they have just released the reader only version (promises of a fully functional app) coming soon. The reader is just that reads the onenote document. Hopefully the editor comes out sooner than later.
I have had not issues with the iPad app including editing, creating, saving etc.
Outline is the name of the app.
http://outline.ws/
I am not affiliated with them what so ever...
Since it's still a year away, I'm gonna buy Office 2011. I noticed my resume I did with LibreOffice had totally screwed up tabs when opened with real Office. It was a bit embarrassing. I noticed the very same thing with a lot of documents.
As much as I'd like to just use free software and save everything in open formats like ODS, it's just not going to be accepted in business/school world. Only solution would be to force everyone to use OpenDocument standard.
As much as I'd like to just use free software and save everything in open formats like ODS, it's just not going to be accepted in business/school world. Only solution would be to force everyone to use OpenDocument standard.