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Microsoft Office for iPad to Launch on March 27
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As a user of the iPhone Office app via Office 365 University subscription I'm very interested in an iPad equivalent, ideally with more functionality. The iPhone app + OneDrive is really good for light editing (i.e. updating the household budget spreadsheet whilst getting shopping, filling up the car etc).
That said for anyone wanting just the iPad app or just the iPhone app then the full Office 365 subscription is way overpriced relative to the benefit you'd get from just the single application in isolation. O365 only really starts to have value when you go all in with desktop Office + OneDrive + mobile apps. And even then the non-University Office 365 subscription is a high annual expense for light home use.
That said I find the current Office web applications + OneDrive highly usable on my iPad mini w/retina.
That said for anyone wanting just the iPad app or just the iPhone app then the full Office 365 subscription is way overpriced relative to the benefit you'd get from just the single application in isolation. O365 only really starts to have value when you go all in with desktop Office + OneDrive + mobile apps. And even then the non-University Office 365 subscription is a high annual expense for light home use.
That said I find the current Office web applications + OneDrive highly usable on my iPad mini w/retina.
Office for Mac had 30,000,000 lines of code in 2006.
Yes, it is 4 years complicated to port it and make an entirely new UI.
Lol iWorks?!
Nobody uses iWorks except a few special people.
google has more of an impact with their suite
iWorks! Hah! I think I heard it all now! Lol
Companies like the one I'm working for will not allow to store documents on a service like SkyDrive/OneDrive (or iCloud). If there is another way to store documents like VPN connected WebDAV or file server it might work.
For private use: subscription ? No, thanks. But understand why MS would like that as it's the only way to get reoccurring income.
For private use: subscription ? No, thanks. But understand why MS would like that as it's the only way to get reoccurring income.
Huh? No, it probably is real Office. They're just not going to give Apple a 30% cut they don't deserve.
Hyperbole is hyperbole
Actually Apple needed this on the iPad when it first launched. And newsflash - go back and read a lot of reports when the iPad was announced. Lots of people bashed it. Not just Microsoft.
Steve Jobs bashed things that Apple later adopted too. It's called positioning.
Sounds like you are trying incredibly hard not to be annoyed and saddened by the fact you broke an expensive piece of hardware.
Ach well, I didn't use it anyway...
Yep. Apple just barely made it to 2014 without Office on iOS. Hopefully this will turn around their awful iDevice sales.
It will be interesting to see how this fares. Office 365 is a non-starter for me and apparently many others. I'm happy to run office on my Macs. iPad? Unless they've really nailed an innovative and effective UI, I have a hard time thinking of Office as a good fit for the iPad.
I would have to say that Microsoft had better bring full functioning features to this release or else, why would I use it?
Seriously, at this stage in the game, there are good alternatives that work well and to move away from them would require more than just the same features.
My first impressions of OneNote for Mac is disappointing, I was hoping for more of the features that I used on the Windows version. Sadly, so much of it is not in this version so it is worthless when compared to EverNote.
If I only needed to view my notes from my Windows laptop, then I guess its ok, but I really wanted a full fledge experience.
And if MS brings a half-baked office to the iPad, then that is going to disappointment me even further.
I had high hopes. Maybe that was my mistake.
Seriously, at this stage in the game, there are good alternatives that work well and to move away from them would require more than just the same features.
My first impressions of OneNote for Mac is disappointing, I was hoping for more of the features that I used on the Windows version. Sadly, so much of it is not in this version so it is worthless when compared to EverNote.
If I only needed to view my notes from my Windows laptop, then I guess its ok, but I really wanted a full fledge experience.
And if MS brings a half-baked office to the iPad, then that is going to disappointment me even further.
I had high hopes. Maybe that was my mistake.
It's not like Office for iPad will have all the features that the desktop version has. Even if it did, we're not talking about a small start-up here. If Microsoft wanted to release Office for iPad quickly, they could do it in a couple of months (about four years ago).
I'm sure what they are about to release have been ready for quite some time. They simply tried to make Office one of the main selling points of the Surface first which, as we all can see, did not work. Now they are trying to make the most out of it.
Maybe they want to get it right rather than rush it like Apple's iMaps failure or MS Windows 8.1 failure?
LMAO! Thanks for a great laugh!
Wait... you're serious?If my company pays for it
and it gives me secure access to my work file . . . I will be using it.
and it gives me secure access to my work file . . . I will be using it.
He is pretty cool actually.
Microsoft dragged their feet for too long. There was a time I would have paid $100 for Office on iPad. Now iWork is so much improved and I have grown so accustomed to not using Office that it would take overcoming inertia to go back to using Office.
Microsoft blew it. They sacrificed Office at the altar of Windows. They even sacrificed their tablet and phone strategy at the altar of Windows. Apple forged ahead into mobile and then went "Back to the Mac" by linking things through iCloud. Microsoft refused to leave Windows behind and instead the whole company got left behind.
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Subscription service is the only way to guarantee recurring revenue even when you are not improving the software and providing new features. It is much more consumer-friendly to charge for upgrades because upgrades give your consumers more features to go with the added cost.
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The iPad version of Office has been complete for quite some time and leaked in late 2012 or early 2013, but Microsoft has held it up internally because they were trying to promote Windows 8 on the Surface tablet. Just another example of sacrificing Office at the altar of Windows.
All apple has to do is beef up iWork some more and I wouldn't even consider office. Mail needs an overhaul and pages numbers and keynote all need more features. Office is superior but a subscription? No.
That is the problem here. Apples 30% cut is simply to much for microsoft to accept. Consumers don't like subscriptions for Software.
So in the end everybody loses. Apple by not getting much out of the subscription, the consumer by not getting an attractive price model, Microsoft by getting lower acceptance of their MS-Office. And in the end maybe a few people even don't buy/upgrade their iPad.
Way too late.
too late for OneNote and too late for this too. Evernote is now the standard for note taking. Almost everyone is using it in our collage. Office for iPad was heavily needed a couple years ago but not now. iWork apps do the %99 of people's need.
too late for OneNote and too late for this too. Evernote is now the standard for note taking. Almost everyone is using it in our collage. Office for iPad was heavily needed a couple years ago but not now. iWork apps do the %99 of people's need.
I had bought previous versions of Office , I have ZERO intention of buying into a subscription based service.
So, under OS10.9 I now run Libre Office and for the few occasions I really need word/excel I run it under a VM, no need to upgrade ever again, and when MS makes the format incompatible then the VM gets dumped and people will be asked to supply their documents in a more friendly format.