Sure thing.
Nobody is going to use Office on the iPad.
I wonder why they're bothering to have employees make it, since not a single person will download it.
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Microsoft Office for iPad to Launch on March 27
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Sure thing.
Nobody is going to use Office on the iPad.
I wonder why they're bothering to have employees make it, since not a single person will download it.
Thanks for making me feel old, kid.
Were you allowed to take your abacus to class?
But that's all most individual people need!
Take Word for example. How many documents do you think are created that used much more than the basics: bold, underline, italics, paragraphs, justification, centering, (add your top 20 basic features here).
Now think about it: how many of those basic features weren't in MS Word 20 years ago? 10 years ago? Most people could do most of their word processing in a version of MS Word from pretty long ago and the experience wouldn't be incredibly different.
And how many of those features aren't in Pages?
I'm not agreeing it's a toy, I'm just saying that it's got more features than most people use for most documents.
I've never used iWork to try and do a mail merge or query a database, but again, I don't most documents use that feature.
Gary
I agree that for a lot of people, Word is more than you need. I love the lazy features that Office has, though.
I forgot about MS Works! Heck, that used to do what most people purchased MS Word for. Yes, Word did more, but most people didn't use those additional features.
I used to do all my papers at university on an old NEC laptop with two floppy drives. I had an MS-DOS version of MS Works that was "semi-graphical" in one drive and DOS, the spelling checker and my documents on the other drive.
It was "semi-graphical" in that it had menus, used a mouse and you could see bold, italics and underline, but larger fonts weren't visual, it just put the works more spaced out. But it did everything I needed
Gary
Sounds quicker to make a new native iOS app that links into the OS X / Windows versions.
Abacus? What's that? All I had were two rocks you'd bang together to do basic addition.
Oh, and tablets. We did have tablets back then...
Alternative to webdav
Has your company tried Cloudtenna? Cloud features on top of private storage. Got to be better than WebDav/VPN/yuck.
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Has your company tried Cloudtenna? Cloud features on top of private storage. Got to be better than WebDav/VPN/yuck.
www.cloudtenna.com
joke
What a joke. A "365" subscription is about $100 PER YEAR, or maybe $66 for home use if the other rumors are true.
I guess it's a nice freebie if you already have 365 for whatever reason. But there's no way that iPad users will stump up this for it.
What a joke. A "365" subscription is about $100 PER YEAR, or maybe $66 for home use if the other rumors are true.
I guess it's a nice freebie if you already have 365 for whatever reason. But there's no way that iPad users will stump up this for it.
Actually, I've read on quite a few forums that people would get a subscription if it had iPad support. It's that last little thing that helps them get 70-100$ worth of value every year from it.
Microsoft are rapidly losing out to the rise of free alternatives. I wouldn't say the complete flop of Surface Pro, the abysmal failures of Surface RT, or the complete failure of them to move with the times in a meaningful way is them doing OK
30% seems perfectly reasonable for making your App available to millions of customers with one click payment to their credit card. 70% revenue is still better than 0%
100% Crap. Utter crap. Microsoft have not been hard at work making Office for iPad for 4 years. They have been stalling to help boost their sales of Surface. And look how that worked out for them. They are the biggest software company in the WORLD and you seriously think they needed 4 years to bring Office to iPad? Your crazy.
Microsoft are falling. Granted, they have a long way to fall, but they sure as s@!7 aren't moving forwards. Steve Ballmer didn't just decide one day to quit. He is gone because of his failures and lack of vision.
I am sick of subscription fees. They only push me further and further away from using their software. I won't ever upgrade Photoshop for this reason. I will pay for Lightroom upgrades as long as they aren't subscription based. As soon as they are, I stop upgrading.
It's simple, I want to pay for the upgrades I feel I need. Nothing more.
What facts? It isn't out yet, so there are no facts regarding whether or not people will buy it. Mine is at least logical.
You think it's logical that MS has taken 4 years of hard work to finally bring out Office for iPad? And you say I don't have a grasp on reality.......... Riiiight.
Don't change the subject. The facts are that iWork on iOS is very successful. And we do not know how successful Office will be on iOS.
Nice tablet.
Much bigger screen than my Surface.
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That is true, we don't know how well it will work.
And your point is?
My point was people said iWork was not successful on iOS and I said the facts prove it was.
And what was your point?
I have iWork on my MacBooks and iOS devices. Haven't used them once (except to try them out). I am a heavy Excel user and Numbers is still behind on so many features. Should they beef up Numbers, then I will reconsider. Until then, I look forward to having Excel on a portable device.