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Microsoft Reportedly 'Actively Working' on Office for iPad and Mac App Store

I hope MSFT distributes an improved Office suite for Mac releases in other ways than just the App Store...how would the App Store work with license codes that my IT department provides to users?
 
LDMartin1959 said:
If Microsoft brings MSOffice to the iPad, you can take that as a backhanded acknowledgement from Microsoft that Windows Tablet (or whatever they are calling it this week) is dead, even if Microsoft continues to sell it and champion it for a while -- right up to the moment they officially pull the plug. For those of you old enough to remember, think back to how Microsoft did exactly the same thing to OS/2.
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I disagree. Completely.
 
i want word on my ipad so bad. pages works well enough for 90% of what i need except the one thing that i need: saving in .doc or .docx format so i can email, edit, and finalize my papers on the go.
 
samcraig said:
I disagree. Completely.
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I agree, MS provides Office for OSX, and that in no way indicates the overall health of the window's platform.

All this shows, is that MS is looking at the large customer base and providing a product that many want and in turn will provide another revenue stream for them.
 
MattInOz said:
Except the market it has already shown it wants the iPad and will buy with or without Office. If MS don't service the market they risk SomeOneElse doing it and becoming the Excel Killer (and in turn the MS killer).

Not saying making an Excel killer would be easy, but leave a big enough hole in the market and someone sure will.
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Given Microsofts market share in office suites, and the general attitude towards ms office, if they dont nake an ipad version it will not in a thousand years mean anyone could dethrone microsoft as the king of office suites, it will simply mean that people will never do spreadsheets on an ipad :p
 
KnightWRX said:
Why do you disagree ? Don't you remember when Microsoft ported Office to OS X ? That meant the death of Windows.

Oh wait... ;)
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maflynn said:
I agree, MS provides Office for OSX, and that in no way indicates the overall health of the window's platform.

All this shows, is that MS is looking at the large customer base and providing a product that many want and in turn will provide another revenue stream for them.
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Exactly^2
 
faroZ06 said:
Nothing really. Unless Excel for iPad is as good as Excel for Mac, iWork is superior. On the Mac, iWork is the best except for Numbers (like Excel), which is worse than Excel.

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Yeah, a Windows tablet would never fly. Windows users are either old-style computer people (who don't use tablets), gamers (who don't use tablets), or Microsoft fans (who don't know how to use tablets).
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SO 95% of people who use computers are one of those categories. Please get out more.
 
AppleMad98004 said:
This would be cool. What ever anyone wants to say Bing is better than Google at the moment..... Plus Google ripped off iOS. "Do no evil" PLEASE!
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Yes Bing for iPad is very nice - I wish they had App for OS X Lion.

If this is any indication of what MS Office App would be like - it going to be very good move for both Microsoft and Apple. In fact - I kind of wish Windows have Apps also - maybe Windows 8.

Just FYI, I like both Apple and Windows and believe they should work together. Best way to compete with the common evil enemy "Google"

This would be great for Apple and Microsoft.

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LDMartin1959 said:
If Microsoft brings MSOffice to the iPad, you can take that as a backhanded acknowledgement from Microsoft that Windows Tablet (or whatever they are calling it this week) is dead, even if Microsoft continues to sell it and champion it for a while -- right up to the moment they officially pull the plug. For those of you old enough to remember, think back to how Microsoft did exactly the same thing to OS/2.
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No it is not - it depends on how you look at things. Microsoft could be working on new development environment where it can cross generated things for Apple and Microsoft Metro. This would be big advantage to both Microsoft and Apple.

So making an app for iPad will not obit defeat of Windows Tablet. It could share come common logic.

Both Microsoft and Apple share a common enemy - evil "Google" and it would be extremely smart if both companies work together for a common solution. I would not doubt Apple and Microsoft are working on some development deals. Microsoft Applications on Apples OS's would be extreme advantage for Apple.
 
kasei said:
If this is the case I sincerely hope they make it a lot more efficient than the desktop client which hogs resources, needs regular updates and crashes. I loathe opening word on my system. However if Microsoft is able to make a better version... if I need to tweak a spreadsheet or a doc I would consider using it.
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Have you used office 2011? it opens faster than any iwork and use similar amounts of resources across the board
 
hstewart said:
Yes Bing for iPad is very nice - I wish they had App for OS X Lion.

If this is any indication of what MS Office App would be like - it going to be very good move for both Microsoft and Apple. In fact - I kind of wish Windows have Apps also - maybe Windows 8.

Just FYI, I like both Apple and Windows and believe they should work together. Best way to compete with the common evil enemy "Google"

This would be great for Apple and Microsoft.

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No it is not - it depends on how you look at things. Microsoft could be working on new development environment where it can cross generated things for Apple and Microsoft Metro. This would be big advantage to both Microsoft and Apple.

So making an app for iPad will not obit defeat of Windows Tablet. It could share come common logic.

Both Microsoft and Apple share a common enemy - evil "Google" and it would be extremely smart if both companies work together for a common solution. I would not doubt Apple and Microsoft are working on some development deals. Microsoft Applications on Apples OS's would be extreme advantage for Apple.
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Win 8 will have '"apps". ARM-based W8 will rely solely on them.
 
who cares!
MS couldn't even bring a decent version of messenger to the iPad. Messenger, of all applications,should've been a cake walk for the folks at Richmond.
Numbers on the iPhone is brilliant for what you get. It is very intuitive and so smart. So it doesn't have the power of Excel but who the hell really knows how to use Excel like it was meant to be used? Nobody but the pros and that is like less than 1% of the population.
Anyway, the Office app for the iPad will be,IMHO a POS! It will be a half heated effort that will leave little to be desired. Like I said before, even Messenger for the iPad is crap on a stick. Crashes, crashes crashes. Waste of effing time.
I'm going to send a letter to Tim Cook asking for a comparable messaging app like messenger for iPad. Humph! They probably already have something like that in the pipeline. I'm asking anyway.

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Steve's Barber said:
Office on the iPad will sell more iPads for Apple than anything anybody has ever done. Apple should pay MS for doing it. Seriously.

That's my beef with the iPad. You can't do anything "useful" with it in a business environment. My colleagues would laugh my ass out of the office were I to send them anything from iWork. Put a non-crippled version of MS Office on the iPad and it's a game changer.
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What the hell are you talking about? Business to you must mean anything outside your creative field. iPad is being used in schools, hospitals, banks, movies, photography and in hotels. And much more. A hotel down the street from mine uses iPads as a mobile front desk. Get real!
And the fact that 99% of the public can't even use Word or Powerpoint to their full capabilities means that what ever they do on it is permeative at best.

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All this lip service about iWorks and Office is giving me a headache.
Most of you don't even know how to use the Office suites to their full potential. You get on whatever application and hope for the best.
 
divinox said:
Win 8 will have '"apps". ARM-based W8 will rely solely on them.
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Exactly that why Microsoft would be interest in making App for Apple - especially if they could figured out way to designed it for both platforms.

Personally I think ARM base Win8 will not be that great. Sort of like an updated version Windows CE.

One thing I wish Mac OS Lion Apps would have is free upgrade from OS X applications to App - for example Scrivener.
 
carmenodie said:
[/COLOR]All this lip service about iWorks and Office is giving me a headache.
Most of you don't even know how to use the Office suites to their full potential. You get on whatever application and hope for the best.
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If you're an Apple fanboy, you should be happy MS is putting their industry standard software on the iPad and not some other tablet. As it stands now, the only way another tablet can challenge the iPad for significant marketshare is by leveraging exclusives. The key area Apple is lacking is apps that push the functionality of their tablet to make it indispensable. Instead, every flagship app is like a lite version that does the bare minimum and can only be incorporated into an enterprise workflow through a ton of crippled import/export nonsense. If MS had put Office on the Galaxy or the Touchpad or Playbook, then a ton of people would actually have a good reason to buy that tablet instead of an iPad. Instead they put it here so be happy.
 
hstewart said:
Exactly that why Microsoft would be interest in making App for Apple - especially if they could figured out way to designed it for both platforms.

Personally I think ARM base Win8 will not be that great. Sort of like an updated version Windows CE.

One thing I wish Mac OS Lion Apps would have is free upgrade from OS X applications to App - for example Scrivener.
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CE is scrapped, so no (WP7 runs on CE, but that'll change come WP8 - NT all the way). How great W8 will be, god only knows. One thing is sure, they have a good chance of repeating history and take-over. They will be cheaper, and enterprises will prefer them (or rather, Corporate IT will). I know for a fact that several enterprises are holding off their tablet investments in wait for it. Why does this matter? In general, enterprises are the ones that bring in new technology. Once they go "all in", we could see deployment figures in the hundreds of millions in a relatively short time span (2-3 years). Once the enterprise market is flooded, people will - more often than not - prefer not to add complexity to their lives by having to operate dual devices with competing logics.

That said, the window is closing. If they can't show something semi-RTM this summer in the ARM line of things... well, that'd suck for them.

(And no, Microsoft have always been interested in developing for Apple. In fact, they have a whole team dedicated on Office for Mac. Apple running on similar ARM-architecture probably has very little to do with things).
 
I, for one, hope the rumor is correct. I don't have an iPad now because I am not certain how productive it would be even though I am sure it would be entertaining. I think Office for the Mac is a great package overall, and if it could run on an iPad I think it would be a game changer. Maybe MS could offer a a version of Office that removes all the fluff (like the simply godawful templates)...
 
faroZ06 said:
Keynote kills, and people don't really judge your presentations on what you used to make them. As far as they know, you're just really good with Powerpoint if you're using Keynote. The only reason the business community doesn't use it yet is because they have been using Office for a long time, and iWork is new. I'd keep my business on iWork to prevent losing my files randomly to the stupidity of Office (except for Excel).

Plus, it can open Powerpoint files easily, and it can export to the Quicktime with links format for computers that don't have it (which runs as if it were on Keynote but in QT Player).

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Pages: More stable and easier than Word, lacks a few rarely used features; I use it
Keynote: Completely kills Powerpoint in features, ease, and stability
Numbers: More stable and easier than Excel, but only has simple features (lame), so I don't use it

Mail: Makes Outlook completely pointless
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Mail works real good when enterprises use active directory and all the features of activesync [/sarcasm]
 
NEXT FAIL ! I don´t belive in an intuitive handling. The OSX Lion support for the suite won´t come with the 2011 version. You need to buy the 2013 oder 2014 version.

Currently Microsoft and Nokia working together. Too losers bundling their strength to catch a chance in the market. Next fail.

I came with Windows 95 and went at Windows Vista with using Windows XP. I´m also working with the Office Suite on my mac. After writing four pages the orthography correction will lame the program by checking the whole time. Next fail.

:apple::p
 
fabianjj said:
Given Microsofts market share in office suites, and the general attitude towards ms office, if they dont nake an ipad version it will not in a thousand years mean anyone could dethrone microsoft as the king of office suites, it will simply mean that people will never do spreadsheets on an ipad :p
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That reminds me...
I'd like to give a quick shout out to all the Lotus 1-2-3 and VisiCalc users out there. :cool:
 
Seriously. I dont know why Microsoft continues to support the evil-est of empires. If it weren't for the few $100 mill Microsoft invested in Apple many years ago, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
 
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