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Now all we need is MS Office!
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I like the iWork stuff better, I would only use office to double check that the exported files look ok.
Besides I don't care what corporate america uses, I don't want anything to due with those golden handcuffs. Not all about selling my soul and happiness to make enough money just to be able to get to work the next day.
It's a new age, quite your crappy job and start making money with your hopes, talents and dreams.
You been drinking too much liberal tea. Who do you think is going to employ you a poor person or are you waiting on that government job.
What is wrong with America are attitudes like yours!
I hear there is a good possibility.
BTW it leaked out a few weeks ago that M$ does have Office in development for the iPad... So expect it.
Don't know about soon but that would be great. The Apple APS are like a toy in comparison.
I love a iPad Pro with FCP X (based on ios AV Foundation already) a pressure sensative stylus, and Photoshop Touch to get a lot more features.
Many would. But Apple needs to allow more freedom for it's devices to really work well.
Without Apple giving us a file management system so we can store our files, the IPad will ALWAYS be limited. I use Dropbox but we need to be able to keep,files on our device for the iPad to be really useful in business.
I would love for Office apps to appear on the iPad. For my business, I have to keep certain spreadsheets and update them regularly. All of my vendors and contacts use Excel so I can't exactly decide to change the program on everyone else.
I was looking into Numbers, but there doesn't seem to be much editing capability for Excel files. Don't want to spend the $9.99 if its not what I will need. Plus, I prefer Office simply because its what I'm used to.
I was looking into Numbers, but there doesn't seem to be much editing capability for Excel files. Don't want to spend the $9.99 if its not what I will need. Plus, I prefer Office simply because its what I'm used to.
Why is everyone saying they would spend big bucks on a MS Office app?
Personally, I would not spend more than $10 or so on each "module." To some that may be "big bucks," but to me, that is on par with the other apps on the market.
Personally, I would not spend more than $10 or so on each "module." To some that may be "big bucks," but to me, that is on par with the other apps on the market.
If you just want to view the files, no need for any apps, the ability to view Office files is built-in to iOS.
Yes but it's the editing element its lacking which is what people are after.
I think I'd spend £20 on office
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I don't think so. I think they have learned not to be stubborn... this is a game that they won't win. If they want to keep Office the de facto standard, they NEED to release office for iOS.
I like iWork just fine, however, I need something that works with Dropbox. Too bad apple won't let us use it.
There is a way to enable dropbox support in the iWorks apps. I did it a while back. I could perhaps find the site again if you want.
Edit- Found it: https://dropdav.com/
I agree that full MS office would be nice but MS hasn't even been able to do it for their own mobile OS options over the years. I swear by iWork now for 80% of my work and even convert iWork to MS native directly on the iPad but Office is just UGLY. I'm hoping for full iWork/Excel to come to the iPad and then the iPad will be an extremely viable PC replacement. Right now, I can't run any complicated formulas on the iPad unless I run a DB and I still can't get pivot tables or any of that jazz.
I have a slightly different take on it. It's very unlikely Microsoft will make a tablet version of MS Office with full features and that's probably unrealistic. What consumers do really want is the full compatibility with Office files, especially Word. If Apple can make Pages read and save Word files better while making sure all the collaborative/tracking features and references work, I can see the need of MS Office decrease quite a bit.
I shudder at the thought of opening a complex Excel spreadsheet on a 1 GHz Dual-Core. Talk about hours of waiting for it to load and recalculate. Plus the whole overheating bit...
I agree completely. We just need something that allows us to edit the files effectively.
Yes. If I were to suggest something to Apple, I'll tell them to throw as much money as needed to give Pages the most complete Word file compatibility possible with the tracking notes and references(footnote, etc) intact. If Pages can read all the Word files correctly and display them as accurately as possible with the available fonts while allowing reasonable level of editing, I just don't think having real MS Office is that important. Excel is still problematic but the demand isn't as big.
So if you're reading this Apple, hire as many contractors it takes and give Pages the perfect - or something close to it - Word file compatibility. This will really help the business users and students!
I do not want to but I would pay MS $100 just for full Word and Excel!
It is THAT important to me.
Are they listening?
It is THAT important to me.
Are they listening?
As a Microsoft insider I can tell you that Microsoft won't release Office for iOS this year. They will wait for Windows 8 and depending on its success they might reconsider. The only thing that is certainly happening is a OWA Mobile App for their next version of Exchange, codenamed E15. That's all for the moment.
As mentioned earlier, QuickOfficePro does the job well. It supports Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF files.
http://www.quickoffice.com/
While we are all wishing. It would be nice if Apple would allow us to set up a file system on my iPad to store office files for when I can not get to WiFi. If they did this AND we got Office from MS, the iPad would SOAR in usefulness to me!
Microsoft has always had a grip on it's office suite just like Apple has with the iPad in the tablet market. As much as I wish someone would just kick Microsoft's ass with a killer suite, I don't think it's happening anytime soon. However, I use Numbers and find it more than suitable for everyday spreadsheets and number crunching (for lifting weights). Complex engineering calculations are better done on Excel.
I think it's the logic and simplicity of iPad apps that are why we've been getting away without PC programs. Hell, GarageBand isn't a recording studio, nor is it anywhere near it, but it is one DAMN good simple interface to connect your guitar into and fire something up right away. Even though we're in a post-PC era or nearing it, there are times when we're going to have to sit down behind one and do the things we can't do on tablets.
I think it's the logic and simplicity of iPad apps that are why we've been getting away without PC programs. Hell, GarageBand isn't a recording studio, nor is it anywhere near it, but it is one DAMN good simple interface to connect your guitar into and fire something up right away. Even though we're in a post-PC era or nearing it, there are times when we're going to have to sit down behind one and do the things we can't do on tablets.