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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: 1) by RedBear on Saturday March 29 2014, @04:40PM

    by RedBear (1734) on Saturday March 29 2014, @04:40PM (#22949)

    How can anyone explain anything to you when your cup runneth over with invalid assumptions about what, where and how other people do their "work"?

    Also, this asinine assumption that portable devices are "meant" only for "content consumption" is getting really old. I don't create much on a tablet either, but there are millions of people who are perfectly happy creating all sorts of content on portable devices. You just end up sounding like all the old-timers who laughed at desktops for being useless because they weren't mainframes, and the new old-timers who laughed at laptops for being useless because they weren't desktop workstations, and the... etc., etc. Technology moves ever onward. In the next decade we'll hear you complaining that these young whipper-snappers are using implanted ocular screens and typing on invisible keyboards and how nobody could possibly get any actual work done without using actual physical hardware like you used to do. And you'll still be wrong.

    Maybe if you close your mouth, set aside your assumptions, and open your eyes and ears you might start to figure out what people actually do with all those "content consumption" devices. They collaborate on CAD drawings for multi-million dollar buildings, they make full-length movies, they write novels, they have dispersed business meetings from remote locations. And that's just scratching the surface.

    As long as you consider everyone else on earth to be dumber than you, how can you learn to respect what they do?