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    MS Office being considered for the iPad

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by fins4o8, Feb 11, 2010.

  1. fins4o8

    fins4o8 Notebook Consultant

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    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=863528

    Another possible positive reason in getting an iPad.

    My buddy working as a Sys Admin at a local Community College District just got another buying point in getting the iPad implemented at his workplace.

    Does this change your mind in getting one if Office for iPad is released?
     
    fins4o8, Feb 11, 2010
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  2. ajreynol

    ajreynol Notebook Virtuoso

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    when it goes from "considered" to "confirmed", I'll have a positive opinion.

    as is, this isn't a story yet. it's a story hoping for a story one day. a day that may never come.

    personally, the bigger deal for me is the inability to print. if the iPad were to be leveraged by printer hardware companies...if say...HP created an app for their printers...allowed me to find X printer on my home network and print to it....then the iPad would be a knockout.

    as is? wait and see for me. and I'm still disappointed about Flash. whether it works perfectly or not is immaterial. too many websites leverage flash for things beyond basic video (like site navigation or applications) to make it okay that a device tasked primarily with producing quality web experiences for to not have support for the technology.

    belly-aching be damned. no flash cuts off about 35% of my bookmarked sites that my laptop goes to. almost a non-starter.
     
    ajreynol, Feb 11, 2010
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    blabus Notebook Evangelist

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    The superior handling of its own Office filetypes is the only way that Office can even compete with iWork on the Mac. Even if they do come out with it for the iPad, I think history suggests it's not going to be as polished or well-conceived UI-wise as iWork on the iPad.
     
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    ajreynol Notebook Virtuoso

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    ^ obviously, superior handling of its own filetypes is what matters in the productivity space...or Open Office would have supplanted Microsoft Office years ago. the world uses MS Office.

    so in reality, compatibility with MS Office matters. good compatibility and accurate translation to MS Office in particular. most competitors can't offer that (or don't do it very well). and let's not even get into how superior things like Excel and PowerPoint are to any free/iWork offerings. Office on the iPad would trump all. If they decided to do it.
     
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