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Microsoft Office for iPad and Android Phones

posted by GungnirSniper on Friday March 28 2014, @11:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the diversify-your-portfolio dept.

elgrantrolo writes:

With the iPad likely to be a top selling PC these days, this distinction in the computing world is likely to become less important, even more now that Microsoft announced the release of MS Office apps for Android phones and for the iPad. Some strings are attached to the Office365 SaaS, but overall, it looks like a significant step for Microsoft to be less reliant on the Windows OS.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by hamsterdan on Friday March 28 2014, @01:50PM

    by hamsterdan (2829) on Friday March 28 2014, @01:50PM (#22610)

    "They just realise that for Office to remain as a defacto standard for business documents, it has to be usable from the devices that business people have, not just the Windows ones."

    Too late for this IMHO, as even between versions (95/97/2k/2k3/2k7 and so on) they have problems with layouts and compatibility. Since my properly formatted document might show in some weird way if the other person uses a different version, why bother paying for office and not use Libre Office (or Open, or whatever office instead?

    That's what I'm doing now. If not for games, Windows might not even be on this computer...

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  • (Score: 1) by BasilBrush on Friday March 28 2014, @02:02PM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Friday March 28 2014, @02:02PM (#22617)

    Compatibility between versions was a problem at one time. But that's a long time ago. As to layout, that's always far worse after importing to a competitor Office system.

    I don't know about you, but when I receive office documents, they are usually PDF, but if not they are an MS Office format. And business still buy MS Office to be able to load those office documents without many issues.

    Personally I don't use MS Office if I can help it as I despise it. But there's no point pretending it isn't still the defacto standard in business.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @06:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @06:40PM (#22741)

    even between versions (95/97/2k/2k3/2k7 and so on) they have problems

    It's always interesting when, several years down the road, some business or gov't agency that committed itself to M$Office needs to access a very important document and the file won't open for them in their current version of the MICROS~1 product.
    Of course, the solution is to simply open that using ($0 FOSS) OpenOffice/LibreOffice and do a Save As.

    ...and, what's the deal with people shuttling around documents in an EDITABLE format?

    -- gewg_