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Microsoft Launching Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPad Today
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Apps look absolutely great. I'd rather use it than anything else.
Office 365 subscription required? Absolutely foolish.
If they were trying to save the 30% Apple tax, they'll get 100% of nothing instead.
Office is not indispensable. They needed to make it competitive.
Damn it, Microsoft. Wasted opportunity.
Office 365 subscription required? Absolutely foolish.
If they were trying to save the 30% Apple tax, they'll get 100% of nothing instead.
Office is not indispensable. They needed to make it competitive.
Damn it, Microsoft. Wasted opportunity.
People who say things like this apparently do zero work in the "real world."
100 dollars a year is "absolutely nothing" for what you are getting. It's 5 installs of Office (which includes Windows and Mac versions) as well as iPad. All connected through OneDrive, and accessible via the web. It's a huge amount of value, and it's delivered very well. You think people who cover this with 1-2 hours of work (or less) value it less than the many MANY hours of great productivity and convenience it provides? The cost is a drop in the bucket.
Pay for it, and get to work with the rest of the world.
I just don't get the complaining.
Office subscriptions can be purchased as an in app purchase. I guess most iPad users will do that inside the app, and won't go to the Office 365 site.
Apple is happy today too..
Look carefully at what the subscription gets you. It's not just Office for the iPad.
What about on-premise users?
So what about enterprise users with volume licensees of Office who use, because of regulatory restrictions and other reasons, an on-premise office server infrastructure to duplicate what O365 does (SharePoint, Exchange, Lync Server, OneDrive Pro, etc.)? Obviously we can use on-premise Office WebApps with iPad to do basic editing of documents, but it would be nice if there was a volume licence option for Enterprises so that we can activate Office For iPad within our own environments.
So what about enterprise users with volume licensees of Office who use, because of regulatory restrictions and other reasons, an on-premise office server infrastructure to duplicate what O365 does (SharePoint, Exchange, Lync Server, OneDrive Pro, etc.)? Obviously we can use on-premise Office WebApps with iPad to do basic editing of documents, but it would be nice if there was a volume licence option for Enterprises so that we can activate Office For iPad within our own environments.
Oh yeah. I keep forgetting some people actually use the location field for their location.
There is one ridiculously cheap place (and it looks it) that actually has good sauce. $9 or something for a 16" one-topping. I guess I can't complain.
Yeah, the place I usually hit up isn't too half bad. It's not upscale or anything, but it's hardly a hole in the wall, either. Decent location, and decent food.
The biggest shame is that the one really incredibly good Italian restaurant around here went out of business a couple years back. They had THE best food there. The owners would make the sauce fresh every day, and the difference between them and every other place around was immediately apparent after that first bite. It was a little on the expensive side, but damn...so worth it.
...and now it's gone.
so I do get with Office Home subscription MS Office on all my computers and all my iPads for 99.99 bucks a year. Sounds not that bad considering that we paid 150 bucks every 2 years for MS Office student edition before.
The new Pages on iOS is hardly optimised, as a heavy user with tonnes of documents stored in the cloud, that thing needs frequent restarting, often freezes and is just generally slow. It's a shame because when it does work, it's great. I'm an iPad air user.
It is not 99 dollar app. It is hardly 10 dollar app. 99 per year gives you 10 devices, you are roughly paying 10 dollar per device per year
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No. It is 99$/second
I find it's still a little too dumbed down. It's okay for most things but I like to have everything an app has to offer on show at all times if possible (which Office does well with it's Ribbon interface, as well as AppleWorks did back in the day). It's the new Pages app that I really can't get on with at all.
Wrong. You download the apps and each one has an Activate button on them. Press that and it gives you the option to input your 365 subscription I.D and password. If you don't have that then the software navigates you to the App Store to pay the $99.95.
You just described iWork's features and functionality for many people here and it doesn't require any subscription or even a premium price. All you need is a Mac or any iOS device and you can install it on as many machines as you want. Even Windows machines can access the documents.
People that don't need the extra features or the enterprise interoperability options, and don't care about OneDrive and Sky free minutes, and Office 2013 for PC and Office 2011 (and the upcoming 2014 suite), are better off with iWork..
I guess though that many people will do care
good news
i know it's late, and not everyone needs microsoft office apps on their iPad...but, for some, it's the total deal breaker between switching to an iPad for work, and having to take their iPad and pc laptop back and forth to work each day.
my wife has a job where everyone corresponds through word documents, excel files, and they create powerpoint presentations for hundreds of people throughout the year. so, this could be huge for her department.
i know it's late, and not everyone needs microsoft office apps on their iPad...but, for some, it's the total deal breaker between switching to an iPad for work, and having to take their iPad and pc laptop back and forth to work each day.
my wife has a job where everyone corresponds through word documents, excel files, and they create powerpoint presentations for hundreds of people throughout the year. so, this could be huge for her department.
Maybe just me but can't find an option to print?
Also with the OneDrive app is it not possible to favourite files so they are available for offline viewing? I know you can save office documents to your iPad and use the "Move to Cloud" feature but it's to automatic.
This makes it a non starter for me as I have the wifi only iPad and my place of work will not allow staff to connect to wifi. I was hoping I could favourite all my work files so they are available offline and then just auto sync to the cloud when an internet connection is available.
Please say I have missed something?
Also with the OneDrive app is it not possible to favourite files so they are available for offline viewing? I know you can save office documents to your iPad and use the "Move to Cloud" feature but it's to automatic.
This makes it a non starter for me as I have the wifi only iPad and my place of work will not allow staff to connect to wifi. I was hoping I could favourite all my work files so they are available offline and then just auto sync to the cloud when an internet connection is available.
Please say I have missed something?