Microsoft's Unified Office App for Mobile Now Compatible With iPad

[Razorpit]

That's exactly how we ended up with the bloated mess of iTunes.

And this is exactly how we're going to end up with a bloated mess of Office.

 

[BWhaler]

I strongly prefer iWork. sure, it doesn’t do everything, but it’s pretty incredible.

 

[LeadingHeat]

Are you getting paid to do that?

That sorta makes it "Pro" in the most fundamental way. You have to be able to function inside the Professional ecosystem your 'boss' has adopted for Professional reasons, so I have trouble seeing your point.

I am just surprised your 'boss' lets you use personal hardware configured as you see fit to perform company business and share electronic files, etc. within the company network. That seems to be a real no-go for businesses I've been involved with, with professional IT, where the 'company standards' are strictly enforced for business, especially security and reliability, reasons.

I definitely agree with you that if I’m using a device it should be enrolled into MDM and under the company’s provisionment (however strict they see fit).

This was honestly a purely hypothetical situation though, haha. Sorry I guess I should have said that. As in it could have been me owning an iPad Pro but was only interested in using it for promotion tech in playing my games (again hypothetical) and using the occasional Microsoft office I don’t see how that’s fair to that person.

Edit: also struck a chord with @Apple Crusader it seems haha. I’ll put it here so we can all become friends

Yes.... blatant money grab..... because back in the day you certainly didn't have to pay ~$300 for Microsoft Office.

If your boss sent you a document, your company can pay for a license to Office 365 or you can use a company device to edit the document. Doing work for your company IS *professional work*.

 

[Apple Crusader]

And this is exactly how we're going to end up with a bloated mess of Office.

It started becoming a bloated mess with the advent of the Ribbon and OneDrive.

I really hate having to click 4 buttons to save a document, when back in the day I could click Save (or Save As), be immediately presented with the file save dialog box, a put the file where I want to store it.

Now a day, I have to click the ribbon button, click save [or save a copy], click other locations, then navigate.

Whoever is doing Microsoft's UI design should have been fired decades ago.

 

[Biorunner]

🤔 Can iOS Excel do pivot tables yet. What about Visual Basic so I can add some macros?

 

[Razorpit]

🤔 Can iOS Excel do pivot tables yet. What about Visual Basic so I can add some macros?

Sadly I don't think Apple will ever allow us to write Excel macros, or even AppleScript for that matter on an iOS device. We're stuck with that joke "Shortcuts". While I do love my iPad Pro, it is Pro in name only.

 

[Jeaz]

This is not a limitation of the OS. This is a restriction imposed upon his device by the company who owns the device. Corporate profiles can have limiters, such as a limit to the number of characters that can be copied at a given time.

They don’t own the device, as we have BYOD policy. Just the information in those apps.
But in a way it is a limitation within the OS, as I believe it can’t tell the MDM the difference between other corporate apps and my personal apps when copy-pasting.

 

[cmaier]

Sadly I don't think Apple will ever allow us to write Excel macros, or even AppleScript for that matter on an iOS device. We're stuck with that joke "Shortcuts". While I do love my iPad Pro, it is Pro in name only.

Pretty sure apple will happily allow excel macros if microsoft decides they want to treat ipads as a full-fledged computer. Not much danger of apple losing a lot of App Store revenue because people decide to, instead, deliver their apps as excel macros.

 

[Razorpit]

Pretty sure apple will happily allow excel macros if microsoft decides they want to treat ipads as a full-fledged computer. Not much danger of apple losing a lot of App Store revenue because people decide to, instead, deliver their apps as excel macros.

I hope you’re right. Just have my doubts. Apple could have given us AppleScript a long time ago but they never did.

 

[cmaier]

I hope you’re right. Just have my doubts. Apple could have given us AppleScript a long time ago but they never did.

Because, as is evidenced from the whole Sal Soghoian situation, AppleScript is considered a dead end at apple. More likely you will see shortcuts ported to Macs.