Microsoft office on iPad... Soon?
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telford_mike said:
does office 365 work on the ipad?Why would Microsoft ever allow Apple to run one of their most successful software packages ever outside their own Windows environment? It would make people go and buy yet more iPads, which defeats Microsofts future vision of bringing out Windows 8 and MS tablets next year.
Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
Anubis said:
Why would Microsoft ever allow Apple to run one of their most successful software packages ever outside their own Windows environment? It would make people go and buy yet more iPads, which defeats Microsofts future vision of bringing out Windows 8 and MS tablets next year.
Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
I know it is ridiculous to think that...Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
Anubis said:
Why would Microsoft ever allow Apple to run one of their most successful software packages ever outside their own Windows environment? It would make people go and buy yet more iPads, which defeats Microsofts future vision of bringing out Windows 8 and MS tablets next year.
Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
Everything about this post is wrong. Have you ever seen any Apple products, or did you just post for comedy value? Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
Anubis said:
Why would Microsoft ever allow Apple to run one of their most successful software packages ever outside their own Windows environment? It would make people go and buy yet more iPads, which defeats Microsofts future vision of bringing out Windows 8 and MS tablets next year.
Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
What about onenote?Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
TBH you can buy tablet PC's with Office already installed. If someone wants to run it on an Ipad (at a higher cost and on a platform it wasnt designed for) then good for them. More $$$ for Microsoft.
Anubis said:
Why would Microsoft ever allow Apple to run one of their most successful software packages ever outside their own Windows environment?
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Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else
Apart from the rest of the garbage you posted that others will comment on, on my iMac I have Silverlight and Flash. (.Net was written for Windows, not OSX so that's irrelevant)....
Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else
Of course, they have quality control system for iPads/iPhones which is a good thing but this has been done to death on other threads. You can always jailbreak their devices if you want to go down the non-approved software route.
And, as you clearly DON'T know, MS has produced Office for the Mac for YEARS. In fact, as I remember, MS Office appeared on the Mac BEFORE it appeared on Windows (1989 V 1990). Word actually first appeared on the Mac in 1984 and Excel a year later.
Anyway, I'll not go on, by now you surely acknowledge your ignorance on the matter?
Anubis said:
Why would Microsoft ever allow Apple to run one of their most successful software packages ever outside their own Windows environment? It would make people go and buy yet more iPads, which defeats Microsofts future vision of bringing out Windows 8 and MS tablets next year.
Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
Apple flatly refuse to have anything on their hardware except Apple approved products. No Silverlight, .Net, flash or anything else - can you honestly see MS suddenly being generous and give a direct competitor a piece of their own pie? I just can't see it happening.
Office will end up on Windows 8 tablets and because of that it entices people away from spending money on Apple and into MS instead. Keeping Office away from iOS also stops businesses buying loads of iPads because almost every company uses it today - they want that custom to go directly to MS products.
The picture on the iPad can easily be knocked up to look like an app to fool everyone.
Just saying n' all
This site will blow your mind:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products
Apparently a version of Office will be built into the version of Windows 8 that runs on ARM hardware (the version intended for tablet use). I doubt that the iPad version will be free. Also, as stated, MS are a software company and it is in their interests that people can use that software on as many platforms as possible.
Wouldn't surprrise me, as MS make more money from Office than they do from Windows. I fail to see the point however, as even writing an email on an iPad takes 3 times as long to do as it does on a proper computer, so god knows how long writing a report would take. It's a bit quicker with a Bluetooth Keyboard, but this kind of defeats the object of a tablet imo.
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