There are people still using Mac:Office 2008 or even 2004. They are still able to create documents. There is really no compelling reason to update every version, or even every other version.
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There are people still using Mac:Office 2008 or even 2004. They are still able to create documents. There is really no compelling reason to update every version, or even every other version.
You only picked that out from all my text?
It's true, but in my calculation you are using it on 1 iMac/MBP.
I have two computers at home, so let's just say that you skip a Mac version, but you buy it well for two machines, it still comes at $92/year and now you have two Macs with a 3 year old outdated Mac:Office on them.
The reality though, is that you don't have to buy Mac:Office twice to put it on both your Macs, regardless of technical legality.
IF you run a business with a decent amount of users, esp really big business. Microsoft handles all the back of the house stuff, support, and troubleshooting for that 99 dollars a year per user, in MANY cases it will be much cheaper.
Plus, if you only need to use Word for a few months or for a few projects. its MUCH cheaper than buying it outright.
How has Microsoft 'baited and switched'?
Office 365 has always been subscription based. These ipad offerings fall under Office 365.
I goofed around with Word and Pages for a bit yesterday for some comparing and contrasting, and this is what I think...
Word does have it's perks over Pages. That's pretty much a given. It's surprising how good of a job MS did at simplifying the thing while still providing you with just about everything you need. In fact, I'd say that MS should repackage this in the Office Home and Student edition because it covers everything most everyone will use outside of some higher end enterprise scenarios.
But if you're in an all Mac environment, or you don't desperately have a need for compatibility, then Pages is a fine alternative. Yeah, it's missing a couple of cool features, but it does do some things a little smoother and more elegantly.
I'm kinda torn myself. I like it quite a bit, but I'm not sure if I really need it. Even with the extra OneDrive space and the $70 sub card from Amazon, I'm not sure if it's worth the cash when Page already does a decent enough job. Most of my documents are sent out as PDFs, and I actually use my iPad for typing them up moreso than my computer these days (for some weird ass reason). I've still got another 28 days to decide, but I'm not feeling too rushed about it. Let's see what I think in another week or two.
edit: and don't judge the font quality from that picture. It looks weird zoomed out in the app switcher, but perfectly fine while you're in the app.
Makes me laugh all these Mac owners who LOVE to pay more to get the feeling of, well I can afford this, I bet you wish you could also, are now so skint that 27 cents is going to bankrupt them.
I get it. The MR demo skews young--and they have less money and less paper work. Good luck with those bronze plans, young americans.
You should have gone to a Microsoft Store and gotten it free like I did last night. And you know that everyone at Samsung is required to use Office. Using Pages is grounds for immediate termination.
If I had an MS Store near me, I would have. But the closest one to me is down in Atlanta, and I'd waste almost as much money in gas driving down there as it'd cost to get the sub for a year.
Plus getting on the bypass is like playing Russian Roulette with a gun with only one empty chamber. Nuh uh. Ain't doing it.
And you know that everyone at Samsung is required to use Office. Using Pages is grounds for immediate termination.
They don't have to know.
If I had an MS Store near me, I would have. But the closest one to me is down in Atlanta, and I'd waste almost as much money in gas driving down there as it'd cost to get the sub for a year.
Plus getting on the bypass is like playing Russian Roulette with a gun with only one empty chamber. Nuh uh. Ain't doing it.
They don't have to know.
I'm lucky, I've got 4 Apple stores and a Microsoft store with 30 minutes of where I live. If I stretch it to 45 minutes, 3 Microsoft stores and probably 7 Apple stores. And a Microcenter too. You should consider moving.
No way! I'm missing an MS and Apple Store near me, but I've got everything else under the sun not even a 15 minute drive away.
...well, I do have a couple of MacAuthority stores near me, but they don't really count. They're like desperate wannabe Apple Stores, and every time I walk in there with my iPad, the people there give me these glassy eyed "one of us" stares that creeps me right slap the hell out.
So you can imagine if I have all those Apple and Microsoft stores in my area that there is also an abundance of just about everything else. If you don't have an Apple store near you nothing else matters. You're just jealous.
So you can imagine if I have all those Apple and Microsoft stores in my area that there is also an abundance of just about everything else. If you don't have an Apple store near you nothing else matters. You're just jealous.
Jealous? Naw. You're probably from up north, and probably don't have any Krystal's there. Just that sad, poor imitation you all call White Castle.
I'm in Massachusetts. Home of Sam Adams and Harpoon. And we used to have a Carling brewery. Remember Carling Black Label?
I wouldn't be surprised. I deleted all three apps before they had even half downloaded, as it gave me time to read the comments here. I'll stick with Pages and Numbers. They do everything I need anyway. My curiosity about MS Office for iPad does not extend to $99 a year!
Ah, Massachusetts. It's nice up there, but only in the summer. I'm sure I told my story about my one winter in Pennsylvania around here at least a couple of times, and...and...no. I don't want to go through that again. I am not a cold weather person.
And Sam Adams. Yup. I'm not a huge drinker, but it is one of my favorite beers. Though if you want to talk about cool breweries in our areas, I do live right in the middle of the birthplace of bourbon. Jack Daniel's was founded not even an hour and a half away from my house.
Oh, and Deliverance was filmed just a bit east of me.
If are getting regular upgrades there is likely not a great difference between a subscription and a traditional purchase plan. If you are buying software with no plan of ever upgrading--like those photoshop 7 users -- then yes--its a "ripoff"
Ah, Massachusetts. It's nice up there, but only in the summer. I'm sure I told my story about my one winter in Pennsylvania around here at least a couple of times, and...and...no. I don't want to go through that again. I am not a cold weather person.
And Sam Adams. Yup. I'm not a huge drinker, but it is one of my favorite beers. Though if you want to talk about cool breweries in our areas, I do live right in the middle of the birthplace of bourbon. Jack Daniel's was founded not even an hour and a half away from my house.
Oh, and Deliverance was filmed just a bit east of me.
It's been a long cold winter this year. I'm ready for some warm weather. Deliverance was a good movie. I own it on that dinosaur media, dvd. I also like those dinosaur CD's much better than the plethora of low quality mp3's that are out there. iTunes doesn't offer quality music. It has played a big part in killing CD's, but the price is being paid in quality.
A win for office might be a loss for windows. I think this enhances Office's profile but is also a huge win for Apple, at least until the android version shakes out. The Metro version requires an api revision and may not release until year end. So for MS--the win 8 nightmare is ongoing.
If there was ever and opening for an ipad pro with a wacom functionality--this is it
You should have gone to a Microsoft Store and gotten it free like I did last night. And you know that everyone at Samsung is required to use Office. Using Pages is grounds for immediate termination.
Last night? At the store I went to, I think they were gone by 10:10. I got there at 9:45am and there were about 7-8 in front of me. By the time the store opened at 10:00am there were maybe 30-40 in line. Anyway, I have Office 365 now, and have used up one of the installs on my Boot Camp partition (I had an older version before) as well as my iPad. When Office for Mac 2014 comes out I'll use up my 2nd of 5 installations on that.
Anyway, Amazon has physical cards with activation keys for $67.15. I'm guessing it's overstock from a retailer who bought too many, since the download is $99.99.
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DED at AppleInsider has a great point. Microsoft released Office for iPad first, well before Android and even before the touch-oriented rewrite for their own Surface (it currently has the Windows version with some bolted on touch gestures). There are probably two main reasons: 1) iPad owners (who pay at least $299 and up to $899) are a lot more likely than Android tablet owners to pay $100/year for a subscription, 2) Microsoft and Apple have a common adversary in Google.
Microsoft will eventually release a true Android tablet version of Office (and not just the crippled phone version that's now free even for editing), but the iOS app may be the bigger money maker for Microsoft for quite some time.
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I actually got it last night shortly before the store closed at 9. There was no in store advertising about it. I read about it online and it said all you had to do was bring in an iPad they would give it to the first 50 people. The Microsoft store I went to is 2 doors down from a very busy Apple store in a mall. I'm thinking that not many people in the area knew about the promotion.
Yea, there has to be something with Amazon's pricing since it's $99 everywhere else. But Amazon usually had good prices on Norton products too, much cheaper than through Norton themselves.