Getting excited about MS Office feels a little bit like racing home to do your taxes, but getting the full Office suite on the iPad — which The Daily reports is happening — would make a lot of sense.
Along with the iPad version of Office, the Lion version is scheduled to come out in late 2012, alongside the Windows 8 version. Office is already deeply and beautifully integrated into Windows Phone, and with Microsoft’s push to get all your junk synced into something manageable with Office 365, it’s sort of a natural fit to be hitting the biggest tablet platform. [The Daily]
Will
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 10:38 AMAwesome, now all we need is it to have compatibility with a decent syncing system. Hopefully livemesh, although I wont get my hopes up. Id settle for dropbox which would make it way better than Pages which doesn’t.
MDolley
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 10:59 AMWhat’s wrong with SkyDrive?
Sicarius123
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 3:44 PMLivemesh is the windows client for skydrive isn’t it?
MDolley
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 4:31 PMYou are right, LiveMesh is part of SkyDrive.
But OneNote syncs directly with SkyDrive without LiveMesh, which is what I meant by my question. Why can’t all versions of office just sync directly with SkyDrive without LiveMesh in the middle.
E.g. Word allows you to save to SkyDrive easily, but you can’t open a SkyDrive document from within word (at least not that I can see)
Wok
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 1:17 PMSkyDrive FTW.
And Office 365 kinda kicks ass.
Symbolset
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 3:20 PMThis is a funny speculative story. It’s not going to happen though.
MDolley
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 4:26 PMWhy not? Microsoft have already released a OneNote iPhone app and a Bing iPad app.
Richard
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 11:36 PMNo reason for it not to. Office really isn’t a must have mobile app that is going to drive people towards Win Phone 7. It’s useful, but if people can’t get it on their device there are good alternatives. Thats especially true when you take into account the fact most people at a maximum probably want to view documents due to the issues with editing them on a small screen.
With that in mind, why not put a copy on the iPhone. It’ll make some money for MS and be a good feature when they release the next office. It also makes the Windows Phone version far far more valuable since organisations who plan on their mobile device users having access to documents can more reliably go with MS products rather than PDFs or whatever.
Sicarius123
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 5:49 PMI’d presume this will come about 12 months after Windows 8 tablets hit.
They have to keep an edge somehow.