All I ask is that they let us create and paste tables into Outlook email
It's really not that difficult for MS to implement
It's really not that difficult for MS to implement
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New Office for Mac to Come Next Spring, Office for iOS Not Arriving Until Fall 2014?
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We're talking about Microsoft here. Innovation like that won't happen. They ALWAYS deliver late with a faulty beta product. Expect it to be ...meh.
Exactly!!!
Although it doesn't have to be directly compatible. As long as you can run sync between Outlook and iCal and Address Book, iCal and Address Book can sync with the Cloud.
But something's gotta be done because once Apple introduced iCloud, it shut off sync on Outlook. I actually think this is more of an Apple issue than a Microsoft issue and it really pissed me off.
Seems like a really dumb move on Microsoft's part that they haven't been more aggressive with getting Office on iOS. I could see why they'd want to purposely hold it up to benefit their phone/tablet products but Microsoft is really struggling to keep up in those markets. You'd think they'd at least try to get a foothold on the mobile software side. iOS users are turning to competitor solutions and forgetting about Office. By the time Office does hit iOS, potential customers may have become accustomed/attached to the alternatives. I know I love Pages (can't stand Word anymore).
Exactly my experience. I use iWork most of the time. Word when I need to create manuals etc. iWork needs more work. I use MS Word reluctantly and the damn thing crashes from time to time. It also pulls up long ago deleted documents or copies when reopening the Mac. It just does weird ****. Even working with cells is unreliable. If only iWork did chapters etc.
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I personally think MS has an identity crisis and it's lost it's way. That could be a result of the leadership. Steve Ballmer needs to go. MS then need to figure out who and what they are, where their going and start producing stuff.
Really it's been a downhill slide since Gates left.
I want out of Office so bad. I want to use iWork, but the compatibility issues with Office are a nonstarter.
They were both released at the same time:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-debuts-iwork-for-ipad-tablet/
Well technically, there is no more iWork. Apple is abandoning that (and iLife) in favor of separate apps. Everything is now a la carte. So I assume development will continue in that way, with periodic updates to individual apps. And if I remember correctly, those were just updated about a month or two ago.
Who cares? Even if Office was available, it does not use iCloud, so why bother... I only need Excel once in a while for files that have more than 65K rows, other than that I much rather use iWork for everything. My files are available from any device, anywhere. Sorry MS but you're just too late...
It's a shame that they can't get one on iOS sooner, but I'm not surprised. They don't have a touch version of Office on Surface other than OneNote. From what I can tell, the ModernUI version of OneNote is much more touch friendly and looked as if the UI was build from scratch. Microsoft could easily port their existing office versions onto their ModernUI or even on iOS, but it won't work that well because it won't be touch based. It looks like they'll have touch friendly versions of Office this fall for their blue release, and they'll port these versions to iOS afterwards. It's like Adobe's SketchBook. The interface is completely different than photoshop and is much more touch friendly.
I would like a better version of Office on my rMBP cause it's killing my eyes.
Moreover, I have some saving problems. eg, I saved a file, closed word, and the file disappeared.
I am pretty new to iwork so it's a bit slow to work with. Most of the features are hidden, took me some time to find them. But with pages I don't even have to press save
With the ipad version, I don't really care. I had pages, number and keynote on my ipad but I rarely used them. I think it's annoying to type on ipad, even if you have the external keyboard.
Moreover, I have some saving problems. eg, I saved a file, closed word, and the file disappeared.
I am pretty new to iwork so it's a bit slow to work with. Most of the features are hidden, took me some time to find them. But with pages I don't even have to press save
With the ipad version, I don't really care. I had pages, number and keynote on my ipad but I rarely used them. I think it's annoying to type on ipad, even if you have the external keyboard.
I wouldn't that taking a "long time". Perhaps they don't won't release it "quickly".
[YAWN] I can't remember when there was an Office for Mac that didn't suck. Won't be buying it ever again.
Thankfully I'm now in a line of work that doesn't chain me to Microsoft's truly terrible (on Mac AND Windows) software.
Thankfully I'm now in a line of work that doesn't chain me to Microsoft's truly terrible (on Mac AND Windows) software.
I would like a better version of Office on my rMBP cause it's killing my eyes.
Moreover, I have some saving problems. eg, I saved a file, closed word, and the file disappeared.
I am pretty new to iwork so it's a bit slow to work with. Most of the features are hidden, took me some time to find them. But with pages I don't even have to press save
With the ipad version, I don't really care. I had pages, number and keynote on my ipad but I rarely used them. I think it's annoying to type on ipad, even if you have the external keyboard.
The latest version of Office 2011 does support the retina display of the rMBP, it's just the icons that are not so high res. The content part is fine.
Thank you, I use such softwares for my Payroll and bookkeeping called AME and for Taxes ProWin and neither are available for Mac. I know there is Turbo Tax and Quickbooks but those are too commercial and do not do for what I need. Seriously it is bad Apple has not considered improving for Accounting if they did pretty much everyone will move to a Mac.
Same here. I don't care about new Office versions since I stopped using Office except for Excel in 2008, and Excel '04 is still the best version.
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It'll look the same on a rMBP and a regular MBP. But once you're spoiled with the things that look nice on a rMBP, a non-retina app looks bad.
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That's all nice and smooth until you want to do an x vs y graph with a trend line. It really sucks to have to use Excel sometimes when I use iWork for everything else.