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Microsoft's Office for iPad Apps Gain Printing Capabilities
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A lot of you don't like MS products, but they did a pretty good job with this offering. My only complaint is the lack of check boxes. One thing I love about Numbers is the ability to easily incorporate checkboxes into your spreadsheets. Not having this in the iPad excel version is a real bummer.
A lot of you don't like MS products, but they did a pretty good job with this offering. My only complaint is the lack of check boxes. One thing I love about Numbers is the ability to easily incorporate checkboxes into your spreadsheets. Not having this in the iPad excel version is a real bummer.
Subscription doesn't work, it's a gap and no choice. If i want to buy it and not rent it, then why not? why do i need to use one drive? Why does a $100 a year piece of software only now have air print which is built into APIs that MS should have been able to implement in days why only now?
Anyone who has an apple product gets iWork apps for free that for most are more than enough for everything they need so again why would you pay for a $100 a year subscription.
It get ridiculous when you look at the cost over say 5 years or the lifetime of an iPad. you just paid microsoft the total cost of the iPad for 4-5 apps that run on it that are free already from apple. I just don't get anyone who needs this unless your workplace is paying already.
It's just redundant.
Anyone who has an apple product gets iWork apps for free that for most are more than enough for everything they need so again why would you pay for a $100 a year subscription.
It get ridiculous when you look at the cost over say 5 years or the lifetime of an iPad. you just paid microsoft the total cost of the iPad for 4-5 apps that run on it that are free already from apple. I just don't get anyone who needs this unless your workplace is paying already.
It's just redundant.
I got an academic subscription which was substantially cheaper (all you need is a .edu address) and the apps actually work very, very well. I've also switched a great deal of my Dropbox load to OneDrive, which was something I was looking to do before anyway because of Dropbox's insane pricing for additional space.
All in all, Microsoft has done an excellent job with their latest offerings. The problem is that they have a severe uphill battle. But, if anyone can leverage a strong existing platform, it's them. Hopefully they don't muck things up. The key isn't trying to milk every last penny out of your users, but to rope them in with free or inexpensive offerings (like what they're doing for OneDrive) and then making your services so good that people just don't want to leave. That's more or less what Google has done over the years.
I switched from the iWork suite on my iPad when Office for iPad became available. My reason being is that while I can do essays, et al., with iWork, my most richly-formatted Office document refused to render properly under Pages nor did Numbers have the conditional formatting in spreadsheets. After my month long free trial with Office, I've stayed with it simply because of those and other things on my list of wanted/needed features.
Condensed version: Office handles Office documents more accurately than iWork.
It's not redundant in the least degree.i would rather use the dreaded open office if needed. or iWork. but no, never wit monthly subscription. it just ensures that i continue to pay even if i don't use it. i use excel like once a month. powerpoint, very little, word a few times a week. i would rather have the option to buy it outright and use it. if they don't provide the option, i will just go somewhere else. many will do. many won't.
The image from Microsoft is a little misleading. Why is there an image of Outlook running on an iPhone? Outlook isn't included in the offerings for iOS.
OWA is available on iOS. Isn't misleading at all.
Exactly, there is no way I'm now going to start to pay for anything that hasn't been updated in 4 years.
AirPrint is still a joke (especially) compared to what you can do with the Surface RT, nothing changed.
So what is your point? Simply that Microsoft's odd decision to release Office for iOS without print support wasn't the first odd decision ever made?
Office 2014 for Mac is coming too. Remember how the release cycle on Office works; the Mac version is always 1 year after the Windows version. We had Office 2010 followed by Office for Mac 2011 and now Office 2013 followed by Office for Mac 2014. It allows them to properly fold all the new features into a native OSX implementation.
As to Office for iPad, it is far and away the best productivity app set for the iPad. Ironically it actually complies with iOS better even than iWork (the extremely high respect for iOS design guidelines was a surprise here - it is not a simple port).
As to adding iCloud and Dropbox, I expect that is coming too as MS is changing from their old "scheduled release" paradigm to one of smaller releases more frequently to get new functionality out as soon as they have it ready.
As to Office for iPad, it is far and away the best productivity app set for the iPad. Ironically it actually complies with iOS better even than iWork (the extremely high respect for iOS design guidelines was a surprise here - it is not a simple port).
As to adding iCloud and Dropbox, I expect that is coming too as MS is changing from their old "scheduled release" paradigm to one of smaller releases more frequently to get new functionality out as soon as they have it ready.
nope. just that it's not odd at all.
you can wait forever if youre only releasing when the product is 100%.
in an era of ota updates, doing this on a piece of software makes even less sense.
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so i guess you dont pay for electricity, phone bill gas or... a mortgage?
Honestly with Office 2013, Check Boxes in Excel under Windows Suck also. I've had nothing but problems trying to keep them in a cell.
Three years and a half so far. Microsoft Office 2011 was released in October 2010. But if Microsoft releases a beta today, and the beta program goes on for 6 months, they won't have updated Office for 4 years. So, you are absolutely right.
How much are you willing to pay then for the full office suite?
$100, $150, $200 ?
Or you want it for $10 ?
Sounds like you wouldn't buy Office for iPad even if there was an single cost purchase option. You simply don't use the apps enough to justify it. And that's ok.
The "nice" thing about Office365 is that you can go month-to-month. Don't need Office for a few months... don't pay a monthly subscription. You can still read your documents.
Obviously, an Office 365 subscription makes no sense for someone who would only use Office on the iPad. That is just foolishness. And nobody is suggesting that. But $65 for the year, to be able to run Office on 5 PCs/Macs and 5/tablets, that's terrific. In my household we're using 4 PC/Mac licenses and 2 tablet licenses.
If you are a student, you can get a 4 year subscription for $80. 1 PC/Mac + 1 tablet.
Now, now... you know what the answer is.
And yet AirPrint is what iOS has.
Would you rather they just not give iPad users printing at all?
My Macs were too until I realized how much better Office 2011 is than crappy iWork. If you really want to get things done and be compatible with the World you use Office. For people looking for a table-like freebee I guess Pages and Numbers are OK.
Let me know when the app gains the "pay once capability".
Then I will be on board, and purchase it.
I'll keep going on about this precisely because I do care.
Yes, I would like to buy and use MS office for iPad. And no, I won't rent.
Then I will be on board, and purchase it.
- Don't need "multiple machine licenses".
- Don't need "yearly cloud storage as an added value". Already have that.
- Don't need "the absolute latest, greatest version" of a WORD PROCESSOR.
I'll keep going on about this precisely because I do care.
Yes, I would like to buy and use MS office for iPad. And no, I won't rent.