apple will implement iWork before Office anyway, I think Microsoft should worry about their own Phones 
I had some pocket version of Office on a Compaq iPaq handheld Windows CE machine many years ago (2001 or thereabouts). Excel and Word documents were fully editable and it was surprisingly usable actually. Seeing as the iPhone has similar screen res to the old iPaq I don't see why they couldn't bring a fully functional Pocket Office to the iPhone rather than a simple viewer.I assume this means viewers or simple editors. I doubt anybody who want to do serious Office work on their iPhones. That said, Mail can already view PDFs and .doc (and I think .xls?) so ... I'm a bit lost here. Can someone explain the significance of this? Is it just Microsoft showing additional iPhone interest?
No offence dude, but you're talking crazy talk here.... I agree with your reasoning, but it's Apple, so you never know.
They may be hoping to create their own iWorks app for the iPhone and sell it for more money than most other apps at the App store, say $30, and Microsoft's introduction of Office on the iPhone may cut into that profit considerably. I know that if I had a choice, I'd choose Office. Why would I need Pages on my iPhone? Or Numbers?MS Word on the iPhone is the killer app, not anything else offered by MS's Office suite, or iWorks.
I hate to be a party crasher, but... I'm against this. If Microsoft does make an iPhone version of Office I will stay away. My reasons are simple: Office on Mac OS (and on Windows) is bloated with features that most people never use, and it's extremely buggy as well.
I'd rather wait for iLife and iWork than Microsoft Office. I can already view .docs on my iphone. I certainly wouldn't want to edit a doc on an iphone and I can't print the silly doc, so I'm not sure what use cases they are working with.
I don't see why they couldn't bring a fully functional Pocket Office to the iPhone rather than a simple viewer.
I certainly wouldn't want to edit a doc on an iphone and I can't print the silly doc, so I'm not sure what use cases they are working with.
Have you ever heard of a "networked printer"? It's this wonderful thing where a device connected to a network (hint: through WiFi) can print to any printer on that network. They even have WiFi printers now. Imagine: getting an email with attachment and printing it right from your iPhone instead of going to your desktop, logging into your email, downloading, opening, and printing it.
Of course, while there is no technical reason you can't print from the iPhone, obviously we don't have that capability yet.
I'd rather wait for iLife and iWork than Microsoft Office. I can already view .docs on my iphone. I certainly wouldn't want to edit a doc on an iphone and I can't print the silly doc, so I'm not sure what use cases they are working with.
Microsoft Office is the real deal. Perhaps, it is not the best in mac. There is not better program than Excell, for example. When you are a professional or are writing a doctoral dissertation most of the other suites are just toys. An office suite for the iphone is going to be a lot simpler, but it has to communicate very well with Microsoft Office. Otherwise, it will be useless. I think an office suite is one of the most important apps that is missing to the iphone.
Why? Surely Microsoft is just killing its own sales by improving the business side of the iPhone.
haha ...writing a dissertation on a phone?
I see your point about excell though (engineer)
I would like to see Office or iWorks for the phone. I wouldn't use it alot, but it would be convenient for various email attachments that I get at times.
Yes, they just screwed their existing customers by re-badging MobileFiles Pro (made to appear like a general file storage/reading/editing) to Quicksheet (which can only edit Excel files).
Both Quickoffice and Dataviz will be releasing their respective office suites for the iPhone, so this void will be filled soon enough.
Based on Quickoffice's press release below, their office suite (Word and Excel, plus file management) will be available shortly for $20, at least initially. IMHO that's not too bad of a start.
http://www.quickoffice.com/news/quickoffice-press-releases/2009-press-releases/press-release-april-1-2009/
I've used Quickoffice's apps before and after their name changes (admittedly quite confusing), and there's been no deletion of features. Quicksheet handles both Excel editing and file management, just like its predecessor. Their website helps to clear up some of the confusion.![]()
All I said was that MS had Office working on a similar sized screen almost 10 years ago. Since the iPhone can run circles around an antiquated iPaq, the resources are there as far as the hardware goes. As for restrictions and limitations for third party developers, I'm sure there's a ton of those but Microsoft has a little more leverage than someone who makes a pull-my-finger app.Don't you? Here's one: the sandbox file structure for apps.