Oh man, this is great news! Personally, I prefer Office to Pages, etc. Likely though because I am more familiar with them.
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Microsoft Losing Next Generation of Office Users by Delaying iOS Release
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That's not an issue. Almost all competing software, from NeoOffice to iWork, can export in MS format.[/QUOTE]
But can they import correctly, I say NOT VERY WELL !
I find the solution that works best is Microsoft Office.
I have given up on my iPad for work only use it for meeting notes.
My Surface RT works well for office and RDP.
Just wish the screen was 4:3, it was lighter and had better battery life.
But can they import correctly, I say NOT VERY WELL !
I find the solution that works best is Microsoft Office.
I have given up on my iPad for work only use it for meeting notes.
My Surface RT works well for office and RDP.
Just wish the screen was 4:3, it was lighter and had better battery life.
Think about it, Bill Gates could have discovered America, if only he was earlier.
He could have named the natives whatever he liked. "Indians 95 XP RT ME"
I take it you aren't in finance. Or in any real Fortune 500 company capacity for that matter.
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Oh you also tell them that Windows is now OSX and their $400 PC just went up to at least $1300 to do simple data entry.
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I'd be willing to bet you don't know any CPAs or people in the Banking industry. Numbers is a joke compared to Excel to ANYONE in Finance.
Again, they are not a software company. They're a platform company defending an OS monopoly in the PC space. Microsofts prior success was never attributed to speedy releases.
No it is not true.
Listen, if you have a viable platform, it is smart to increase its value with great exclusive content. If you have your own platform, but it isn't used very much, the same exclusivity is wasted on it. Owning a platform is profitable, but building it is hard. Only after you've been successful in the platform competition, you can cash in the benefits.But if that article was posted, we'd get 500 posts calling out the author as completely insane, how locking desirable software to exclusive hardware is crucial to the success of Apple (even "genius!") and on and on. Funny how that works.
I love rhetorical questions…..
Still, it's kinda sad to see how far the once mighty have sunk. They were once a leading company with solid products, but now seem to wander aimlessly, without any vision, while desperately trying to see where they can get traction.
The marketplace is a continuously changing venue, and those not, or incorrectly, predicting where it's heading, are left behind.
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Not Working Because They Don't Control The Platform
Their "MO" only worked when the software was running on their OS. Remember the old saying, "DOS isn't done 'till Lotus won't run." MS made deals with companies that bundled Office with MS-DOS/Windows. They could buy the two for less than it would cost to buy the OS and then an office package from Word Perfect or whoever. When they weren't breaking competitors' products outright with OS "revisions".
That doesn't work in the mobile space, where Microsoft is an also-ran. And MS doesn't want to give up the $200 a PC that they get for Office on Windows for a $100 a pop (or less . . . probably a lot less) Office on iOS.
In a way, the smartest move Apple made was to open the Appstore and then price applications so inexpensively. That move instantly devalued application software, which will continue to assist Apple for years to come by imploding Microsoft's margins. Between cheap Appstore apps on mobile devices and Google giving away their increasingly-capable apps for free on both desktop and mobile devices, Redmond is gonna get crushed.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of clowns.
Their "MO" only worked when the software was running on their OS. Remember the old saying, "DOS isn't done 'till Lotus won't run." MS made deals with companies that bundled Office with MS-DOS/Windows. They could buy the two for less than it would cost to buy the OS and then an office package from Word Perfect or whoever. When they weren't breaking competitors' products outright with OS "revisions".
That doesn't work in the mobile space, where Microsoft is an also-ran. And MS doesn't want to give up the $200 a PC that they get for Office on Windows for a $100 a pop (or less . . . probably a lot less) Office on iOS.
In a way, the smartest move Apple made was to open the Appstore and then price applications so inexpensively. That move instantly devalued application software, which will continue to assist Apple for years to come by imploding Microsoft's margins. Between cheap Appstore apps on mobile devices and Google giving away their increasingly-capable apps for free on both desktop and mobile devices, Redmond is gonna get crushed.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of clowns.
Except compatibility, which still sucks. For all the features and the formats people use most, Office is still boss.
Isn't Office for iPhone already available? Since June 2013...:
http://blogs.office.com/2013/06/14/office-mobile-for-iphone/
What does this article talk about? A different thing?
http://blogs.office.com/2013/06/14/office-mobile-for-iphone/
What does this article talk about? A different thing?
Surface didn't just fail as a tablet but it's now destroying a key Microsoft brand.
Keep office Surface only - lose money. Put Office on iOS - make big money. Simple.
May now be a bit too late as so many people have already realised they can get by without Office.
Keep office Surface only - lose money. Put Office on iOS - make big money. Simple.
May now be a bit too late as so many people have already realised they can get by without Office.
Bingo. This. Office should have been one of the first apps available for the iPad when they came out. By now, ME would have sold millions and millions of copies of it and it would have been an App Store staple. Instead, most of us have moved on and are very content with whatever other solution we found.
Also agree on MS trying to be apple. Just stick to business software and stuff like that. All of a spudded they decided to be a hardware company and their hardware options are NOT very intriguing. Sorry.
If Numbers continues to get updated and improved there will be no reason most people need Microsoft for anything. Sadly Numbers just doesn't have the power of Excel yet. When it does I'll gladly drop the last of the Microsoft bloat.
Yes, for all the talk about how tablets are replacing laptops, they are in reality a poor substitute. Greasy finder smudges, keyboards that obscure screens, and no USB ports.
What about a Surface with a typecover?
Wait, I forgot it is crap, according to iPad users than never really used a Surface and are afraid of finding that iPad is not "Perfect" and "better in All ways" ...
