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Microsoft Office Apps Top App Store Charts One Day After Release
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Yeah, everybody can't be a great forward thinker like you. Isn't it difficult being so great???
Have fun making up ridiculous arguments for the point of arguing. As an alternative, you can simply grow up.
I'm puzzled by this. Why the hostility?
Me too. Seems like some people are still stuck in the 90s when there actually was a desktop OS war. Nowadays, its Android vs iOS and Office is just one app/service amongst many. Important for sure, but hardly anything to get all rallied up and go religious about. Enjoy the really well-designed apps from MS, the compatibility and feature set, or stick with Pages, Keynote, Google Docs, iAwriter or Haiku Deck.
Are you sure?
Not for trolling, but i've never seen a major (non-media) company that uses Pages?
I just switched today. Have been using pages and numbers on my ipad/MBP since last year. But now I use the best that both Apple and MS have to offer. Apple Hardware and OS with MS Office as my productivity applications. Just signed up with Onedrive, I must say, that also looks pretty good! I dropped Dropbox ;-)
It's now so much easier to view&edit a document from a coworker while i'm not in the office. No more hassle with unsupported fonts, non-working filters etc...
iCloud for Mail, Photostream, backups and device synchronization for certain apps&games.
Onedrive for my documents and to auto-upload my iOS photo's as a first backup.
I must admit that I still have the possibility to use a university account. 4 year $80,- (eur. 69,-). $99,- p/y is too much. I'm convinced that if MS slices that amount in half that the user base at least triples.
I'm puzzled by this. Why the hostility?
You always see this.
It's like when Samsung has a feature that an Apple product does not have.
They swarm to attack it.
If you don't want or don't need something then all good.
But it seems Apple Fanbois has GIANT chips on their shoulders, and the moment someone offers something better then their beloved company can offer.
Rather than just ignore it, they had to attack attack attack.
It's sad and pathetic to watch. But they can't help themselves.
Apple fans are the ones that would make a mission to mars, but the "rover" can;t do as much, but hey it looks cool.
sad sad people
I did read the whole article. Although they're on the top grossing list, I guarantee you that tens of thousands of people downloaded them, saw the price, then deleted them. And I'm mainly talking about the average consumer, like students and people who don't use it for business.
Of course it did - .ppt is PowerPoint's native format.
Try opening a Keynote file in PowerPoint.
Step aside. That is not how the world presents.
I like keynote, the world prefers ppt as the universal format so I save on that.
My point is that you can't blame Keynote for not displaying a .ppt as well as MS Powerpoint does, and that Powerpoint can't open a Keynote file at all. You dig?
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There's no hostility to Microsoft Office for iPad. There's hostility to the fact that the apps are crippled unless you pay $99/year.
Free or not extra expensive makes the most sense for everybody
Then it's safe to say that you don't use any Apple products due to their expense? You can get something cheaper that works just fine for a lot less. That would make the most sense for everybody, right? Why buy and iPhone, you can get a cheaper phone? Why buy a Mac, you can buy a cheaper Toshiba? Is that the kind of sense you're suggesting?
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I apologize, I thought my sarcasm was obvious. There is no question that Office is the standard for the majority of the business world.
I'm puzzled by this. Why the hostility?
Because the apps are crippled unless you pay $99/year for life. If they allowed you to buy it, it would be a different story.
You simply need to sign up to a month if you wish. That's what I did, so I can try out the app and determine if its for me. Its seems there is no in-app purchase of a month but you can easily do so over at the office 365 webpage and then start using office.
I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir to some degree, but all I really did was download and delete, so it's on my account that I have these apps now. I refuse to pay for any sort of office suite, with alternatives like iWork, LibreOffice, GoogleDocs, etc. all being free. Microsoft really did lose out by letting the normal user know they don't NEED Office (because it's funny how many people thought they did).
Yeah, but I don't want it for "just a month", I want to be able to purchase the apps, like Mac:Office.
A month is nice to test drive it, and then if you like it then embrace the 99 dollar subscription.
If that subscription is a stumbling block, i.e., you want to buy the software, then the newer versions of Office is not for you.
Its either Microsoft's way or the highway at this point
In most threads, you would probably be preaching to the choir. Not this one though. Unlike you, many found the value of 5 licenses for $99 to be a good value. Also, MS is giving a 30 trial. If you really wanted to know if the software was any good that would have been the way to go. Downloading and deleting makes absolutely no sense. You just wasted time. Granted there are a lot of people who like the alternatives and have no use for the software. I would be willing to bet those people are the minority.
The truth is the software is good. The value is there if you have multiple devices. Tons of people want it. It's good for everyone. The choir you mentioned? They're hunkered down on their keyboards waiting for the next Samsung Ad to be posted so they can lose their s@%t.
No no I am speaking for 100% of people. Don't you remember the whole world voted. Everyone voted me to speak for them.
No no I am speaking for 100% of people. Don't you remember the whole world voted. Everyone voted me to speak for them.
I remember that. And I didn't vote because I found all the candidates lacking.
I'm one of those folks who's actually liking the office products. I think MS did a great job and its much better then iWork. I can't speak for LibreOffice or Google Docs but for collaborative work, its not good to mix and match applications.
Based on what we're seeing here, the reports of its popularity, MS has a winner on its hands. Don't get me wrong, I wish it wasn't tied to a subscription service but I'm getting value for that dollar amount and that's what counts.
My high school has Sharepoint/Office 365 - I get it for free anyway so I guess I'm lucky. I have to say that it's an improvement on iWork although not perfect.
It seems a lot of people here forget that there's people with different needs.
I frequently use the equation editor in Word, so Office is a no-brainer for me.
IMO, Office (Windows version - Even though I have the Mac version), is cleaner, and a lot more powerful than iWork.
I frequently use the equation editor in Word, so Office is a no-brainer for me.
IMO, Office (Windows version - Even though I have the Mac version), is cleaner, and a lot more powerful than iWork.