It wasn't intended to. I bought a Zagg Bluetooth keyboard and can do my entire job on the iPad. Of course it helps that 80% is through RDP to my servers.
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Microsoft Office for iPad Coming 'Sooner Than Most Think'
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It wasn't intended to. I bought a Zagg Bluetooth keyboard and can do my entire job on the iPad. Of course it helps that 80% is through RDP to my servers.
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Promises, promises...
Office 2014 for Mac would be nice (non subscription - dreaming but it cannot hurt)
Promises, promises...
Office 2014 for Mac would be nice (non subscription - dreaming but it cannot hurt)
Microsoft's cash cows have been Windows and Office for years.
Surface is a newcomer... and not a very strong one.
Microsoft would make more money from selling Office to a tiny percentage of iPad users... than all the Surface sales combined.
Yay! With my recently-purchased ARKON and ANKER ipad stand and bluetooth keyboard, I could get office cooking and ditch the laptop (and ditch teamviewer that I've been using to remote into my laptop from my iPad to try to do word processing).
Hate all you want haters but Office helps the (business) world go round.
Hate all you want haters but Office helps the (business) world go round.
What're the features I'm missing out on by using iWork instead of Office.
iWork is compatible with office files, and features like Auto Save, Versions and iCloud syncing are impossible to go without.
iWork is compatible with office files, and features like Auto Save, Versions and iCloud syncing are impossible to go without.
If MS does not release Office, then it will be one more reason to switch to some other office productivity suite. Office does not run on 2/3 of computing devices on sale today. Once a certain number of people and companies start switching away, it will be an avalanche. MS will end up with lackluster Surface sales as well as lackluster Office sales.
This is a very risky move that MS has been making for years without much of a payoff in Surface or Windows Phone market share.
As an iPad Air owner I can say amen to that. Apps crashing, App Store crashing, Safari crashing and reloading pages if more than 1 tab is open.
I guess I'm not most because I'm amazed that they chose to make it for the iPhone (which I've used - it was awful) and not the iPad version, which I assumed they already did.
I have 365 but I'll pass.
I have 365 but I'll pass.
You remote control into your laptop? Did you graduate from the Rube Goldberg school of business?
No one is hating here. The collective consensus is that MS missed the boat. People have moved on to iWork and other solutions. And Office does not help the (business) world go round. Any business can choose a number of office apps. But MS has businesses convinced they have to use MS.
Do yourself a favor... http://www.apple.com/ios/pages/
Sounds like my 4S about a month ago; I wish I remembered what I did that made it not do that.
On the iPad Air, I can get 5-10 or so before it starts reloading pages (depending mainly on the exact websites), but Safari never crashed more or less with many tabs open. It's much more....
Unpredictable.
How can there be less reasons to buy a surface?
The release of Office on iPad would most likely generate more revenue than keeping it exclusive to Surface.
Agree, office for Mac needs improvement. Perhaps the lack of news right now is good news, means Microsoft is slowly and quietly making progress. Besides we all knew office was going to come to the iPad eventually.
I wouldn't complain if I could get 5-10 tabs open with no reloading. 2 or 3 is not a premium experience. I've had Safari crash with one page open, but I've had no better luck with Chrome either. I'm really hoping it isn't a hardware issue, ie, lack of RAM. 1GB in 2014 is sparse no matter how you look at it. I would have rather paid an extra $4 and had 2GB.