No, the Ribbon should not have been tossed out years ago. And your anecdotal response also means very little. Most enterprises use Office because it works for what they need. If OpenOffice did, they'd move to that ... companies don't like paying for things they don't need.
Cortana makes me think of Ford.
Nutella, seriously? You must be hungry.
I've seen far too many of my friends shoot themselves in the hand with a nailgun to ever be truly trusting of them.
...but then again, my friends are kinda dumb.
I like the new Microsoft. Satya Nutella is a great CEO so far.
True story. I knew a guy who was nailing off the plywood decking on a new house and put a ring nail through his big toe with a nail gun. They had to cut the plywood out around his foot and took him to the hospital with the wood attached to his boot.
This might be excellent news for folks that live in a Microsft world but carry iOS devices.
If only Apple ported iTunes and the iTunes music store over to Windows Mobile and Android. And also allowed them to sync with iTunes on the Mac and PC.
"Initially"? How about "never"? I can't see Apple relaxing iOS that much, giving an app access to system-controlling features such as launching native apps. And I also bet that you won't be able to start Cortana by holding the home button. Even apps like Launch Center work only with specific 3rd-party apps. I would bet that Cortana will launch MS apps, such as Office.
In other words, Cortana will be allowed very limited functionality in iOS, which will reduce its usefulness.
Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Phone 8, Office, Azure are all infinitely better than their Apple counterparts. Windows 10 runs better on a new Mac than the latest version of Mac OS does.
Not interested, stopped using Microsoft products and removed them from all of my apple devices a long time ago. Good riddance. ��
Windows in general hasn't had any breakthrough UI features that improve consumer productivity since Windows 95.
Off the top of my head:
Windows
Windows Server
Office inc Visio & Project
IIS
SCOM
SCCM
SQL
Terminal Services
Active Directory
Lync / Skype
SharePoint
Hyper-V
File System services (DFS, DFSR etc)
Visual Studio
Silverlight
Edge/IE
PowerShell
I hope you are joking.
To summarize all above I personally consider a suicide to use iWork apps in any serious productive environment! Not only you have to deal with some nonsense limitations, but you are totally at Apples mercy, when it comes to your data! I wouldnt even consider iWork for home environment because of all above.
Nevertheless, have fun in your golden cage. It might become too small to fit someday, and your burning desire would be nothing but the door key!
Let me tell you as someone who has used Cortana pretty extensively.. this is good for EVERYONE with an iPhone. Cortana is awesome, it is a far better voice assistant with a wider range of features over Siri. The only question I have is the extent to which Apple will allow the Cortana application to interact with iOS in general - time will tell as to whether the iOS version will be on a tight leash on iOS devices or not. I hope that Apple just enable Cortana to have the 'run of the device'... if it's anywhere near as good as its implementation on Windows Phone it's reason to rejoice !
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Dude good to know. I barely use Siri as it is because she's rather . . . . meh.
I have a feeling it'll be an uphill battle for MS to get Apple to relinquish control of the OS. It's bad enough that 3rd parties can't get default app status for things like Mail, Photos, Calendar, tasks, etc. it's really the only reason I use the default apps.
Falling in love with Gmail means dealing with the headaches of being brought back to Mail when I want to email a photo.
Not to mention delicious.....You crack me up.....
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this is why Android is where it's at. There is just no room for innovation on iOS. "innovations" on iOS come from API x or y which create a new app or feature. innovation on Android is about integration of various apps to do something "completely new", without building a new app that does that. iOS is really only good for the most simple of use-cases.
Everything else, from Asana to Final Draft to Chrome and Wunderlist and MS Office and so many many many others are cross platform. If Apple ever made is so that Android based handsets fit into the Apple ecosystem there'd be a serious drop in sales.
You are my hero! Enlightened liberator.
Seriously? There were quite a few UI features to alter productivity, like Aero snap for example. I am using it every day: maximizing, minimizing split screen windows are matter of seconds. Windows 10 brings even more.
Allow me the opposite question: what productivity UI features did Apple introduce the first OSX of yore?
Oh sure:
- they killed Expose functionality of Snow Leo with productivity mess of Mission Control
- they allowed window resizing from every corner instead of bottom right. Truly outstanding innovative avant-garde, despite being an unspeakable heresy
- they brought us Yosemite countless UI innovations, - UI LAG being the greatest of them. Oh, I forgot: transparency and new trash are building the front row of productivity boosters, hands down. And speaking of Front Row...
Killing useful features for no particular reason, - a revolutionary productivity concept.
Siri has issues when I use it on my phone, but I don't think I've had any problem with using it on my watch. Maybe my mouth is closer to the mic? Whatever it is, Siri is much nicer when it works![]()