It's official. No MS Office for iPad.
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world?s largest software maker, has no plans to make a version of its Office suite of programs to run on Apple Inc.?s iPad, said Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft?s business division.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...no-threat.html
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...no-threat.html
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Apple should offer iWork on Windows. It might cut into MS Office monopoly and help Mac OS X become less dependent on MS Office for Mac.
What I want is a copy of Pages for my Mac for $10, like is being sold for iPad.
It is Microsoft's loss
Apple should offer iWork on Windows. It might cut into MS Office monopoly and help Mac OS X become less dependent on MS Office for Mac.
Better still. Apple should install all the MS fonts in Office into iWork by default. And Apple should build MSN compatibility into iChat.
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world?s largest software maker, has no plans to make a version of its Office suite of programs to run on Apple Inc.?s iPad, said Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft?s business division.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...no-threat.html
Corrected entry:
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world?s largest idiota, said Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft?s business division....
Go Apple..... Lets get this iPad rocking and then get to iPhone 4 going..
what about
open office
google docs
iwork
bunch of other cloud based products
why do you need office
what about
open office
google docs
iwork
bunch of other cloud based products
I don't but millions of others seem not to be able to live without it. It has become kind of a standard, I suppose. I don't know Office so that has made it harder to find a job.
why do you need office
what about
open office
google docs
iwork
bunch of other cloud based products
Because Apple fraks up my formating every time I try to open a Word document in there. It's horrible. Never mind that the file system on the iPad makes running a business with it on the fly almost impossible.
Because Apple fraks up my formating every time I try to open a Word document in there. It's horrible. Never mind that the file system on the iPad makes running a business with it on the fly almost impossible.
What he said:
what about
open office <-- Not Apple
google docs <--Not Apple
iwork
bunch of other cloud based products <--Not Apple
So, the question is, why are you trolling against Apple in your response?
What he said:
what about
open office <-- Not Apple
google docs <--Not Apple
iwork
bunch of other cloud based products <--Not Apple
So, the question is, why are you trolling against Apple in your response?
Trolling? It's the problem I'm having right now trying to fix it. Relax kid.
I've used Google Docs, but that's not a workable solution and has the same issues. Never tried open office. Though when all your solutions involve "not Apple" don't you think you are the one that's anti-Apple?
MS can't even get a mobile version of Windows right yet.
It is Microsoft's loss
Apple should offer iWork on Windows. It might cut into MS Office monopoly and help Mac OS X become less dependent on MS Office for Mac.
I hope not, we don't need more proprietary formats becoming popular. MS is at least working on open formats for Office documents, but in their backhanded and reluctant way as usual. We need better adoption of open standards so the same documents can be used in your preferred Office suite without worrying about formatting and things messing up.
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world?s largest software maker, has no plans to make a version of its Office suite of programs to run on Apple Inc.?s iPad, said Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft?s business division.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...no-threat.html
MS was late to the internet, and it appears that they will be late to the iPAD as well.
With 1 million units already sold in the US, and figure at least that same amount to the rest of the world, here in May, then the surges in between with school and Christmas, Apple's goal of 10 million units could maybe be reached, which are a lot of potential sales for a MS Office package.
My guess is, they are looking into it.
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