Then I bought windows 8 to run it in boot camp. Took forever to install and after a few uses just broke.... MS support said I gotta reinstall
...what were you doing to it?
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Microsoft Bashes Apple's iWork Software, New iPads
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...what were you doing to it?
I'm glad it's a pain to implement, administer, and use. It keeps us SharePoint guys employed.
Why is microsoft even developing an OS for tablets?
I thought win8 was there to also run on MS tablets
Now they got: windows phone, windows 8.1, surface and surface pro and maybe other OS i dont even know.
Wtf? Y? They dont have an app store and except for win8 nobody uses them!
iOS is a success story. MS products are pathetic imitations.
looks like he's the one in a "reality distortion field"
typical microsoft jealousy that apple gets everything and they got nothing
Yeah, cause Microsoft makes its money from hardware sales like apple does.....
Apart from keynote the rest of the apple productivity software is not in the same league as office. And mavericks is frankly an incremental update to mountain lion, and it's not free..... That apple hardware you bought came at a nice price. It's like windows 8.1..... You can argue that was a free update after the initial investment.
I used it on my iPad to write stories. I had no notebook computer at the time. Just bring along the wireless keyboard and you've got a little world processor.
Is it optimal? No, because I couldn't send it to our publishing system. The old one we had required a remote login, the new one now requires Firefox. Not sure if it would work with Firefox for iOS, but I doubt it.
Anyway, some people use it. It's especially going to be handy now with iCloud integration.
You're not the only one. From what I hear, tablets in general, specifically the iPad, are quite popular among writers.
...what were you doing to it?
Nothing! Barely used it.
Wanted to boot into windows one day and now its stuck on the windows symbol. Since win8 doesnt have safe mode anymore ms support just told me to reinstall it, since there is nothing they can do.
Ive used microsoft products for two decades before and i am really really sick of their poop!!!
Once you go mac you never turn back!
What is wrong with the kickstand? Did you try the one in the new surfaces? Is it worse to have a (imperfect, at least to you) kickstand than no kickstand at all? In any case, you don't have to use it.
Lack of trackpad? there is one on the optional keyboard if you need. Or you can use a bluetooth/USB mouse. Not sure what the problem is. And what is PC mode? You mean the desktop?
Just curious. If that happens, will that be copying Microsoft or not? It seems Apple only gets "inspiration" but never copies, while all the rest are dirty thieves of Apple ideas, even if they make a totally different product (IPad and Surface almost as different, from a physical and philosophical point of view, as it can get for a tablet). Hehe
Nothing! Barely used it.
Wanted to boot into windows one day and now its stuck on the windows symbol. Since win8 doesnt have safe mode anymore ms support just told me to reinstall it, since there is nothing they can do.
You were bootcamping, right? What you were experiencing was likely a problem extending from that.
I don't understand why Apple doesn't just drop the nuke comment and shut Microsoft up forever..."Unlike our competitors, we don't write off $900 million for unsold tablets...that's our profit."
Very possible. I just never had similar problems with anything apple.
But MS products seem to always make problems even when you use a PC.
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Do you mean 99% of the population at one point or another in their lives, then?
Everybody i know uses iwork. Especially on the iPad.
I bought it on mac just so i can syn it to my iPad without formatting problems. I use almost exclusively an ipad mini for word processing, keynotes, prezzi and some numbers because i have a 5 hour commute every day and it fits in my coatpocket.
Eh. Even though I've kinda moved away from Windows a bit recently, I've never had much of a problem with it. My general experiences have been that as long as you don't buy cheap crap, it runs just fine.
Not saying Macs are cheap crap (cuz I know that last sentence made someone around here get all indignant), but bootcamping is kind of a weird way to install Windows, and can occasionally introduce problems you normally wouldn't get on a regular PC.
One thing is for sure, barring hardware issues, Windows doesn't just break for no apparent reason.
The "free" software from Apple is included in the larger than average profit margin (=more expensive products). There is no free.
It's like the "free" phones in USA.... with a 2000$ 2 year contract.
I pay 5-10$ a month for my mobile phone bill in my country. Sure I had to pay the phone full price, but I can choose to buy a 800$ phone or a 100$ and get the saving directly. In the USA system they "force" you to buy the 800$ phone because you will not see almost any saving by buying a cheaper one.
Ive been using windows since it first came out. And i mean win 1 in the 80s.
It did break for no apparent reason before.
Plus giving away free software isn't a new thing for Apple. From what I remember, they only started charging for their OSes around the time OSX came out. Back in the day, they'd ship OS7 and 8 out as coverdiscs with Mac magazines.
...and it didn't exactly do all that much to hurt MS even then.
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Yeah, during the Windows 1-98 days, it would break for no reason. But hell, everything was terrible back in those days.
But what was true then isn't the case now. Griping about something because of the way it used to be would be like someone hating Macs because they only have one mouse button, or because OSX 10.1 is a crashy, laggy mess no one in their right mind would want to use.
Which is why so few buy them. They're too confusing products from your average consumer's point of view who simply wants to buy either or tablet or a laptop.