Microsoft Office for iPad Coming 'Sooner Than Most Think'

Is it coming sooner than "I don't think about it at all"? That's pretty fast! :p

iWork for iPad. Been here. Use it. Can convert it to word thru iCloud if you really need to.

Office for iPad
The Duke Nukem Forever of productivity tools

Im sure it will arrive.With Microsofts typical lack of quality.Crashing, bugs, locking up.Why anyone buys anything from them I find mind boggling.

Ah so just like the current iterations of Apple's most recent products!

"Coming sooner than most people think"

"Has been rumored for a number of years"

Well okay then

Office is a huge card in Microsofts hand. Releasing Office for iPad is going to hurt them. One less reason to buy a surface.

Having your competition use other software will hurt them as well.

iPad sales > Surface sales.

If only 1% of iPad users bought Office it would probably take 98% of Surface users to equal it.

"Sooner than most think" would have been two years ago. :rolleyes:

Sorry guys but Office was and is the gold standard for Productivity software. And contrary to some "assertions" people have not moved on from it at all. Office 365 has been a monster hit and companies and professionals have in fact been dropping garbage like Google Docs like hotcakes especially after it became clear that Google is indeed spying on users.

iWork is not usable productivity software as evidenced by the vast majority of Mac users who need Productivity wind up just buying Office for Mac. That is part of why iWork became free - most did not consider it worth paying anything for. And other "solutions" like OpenOffice are flat out crud.

Office for iOS will be here this year. Not years down the road. And yes Office Mac 2014 is also coming - remember Microsoft follows a "tick tock" with Office where Office Mac follows Office by a year.

Welcome to MacRumors. How has your company changed since Satya Nadella took over?

Sorry guys but Office was and is the gold standard for Productivity software. And contrary to some "assertions" people have not moved on from it at all. Office 365 has been a monster hit and companies and professionals have in fact been dropping garbage like Google Docs like hotcakes especially after it became clear that Google is indeed spying on users.

iWork is not usable productivity software as evidenced by the vast majority of Mac users who need Productivity wind up just buying Office for Mac. That is part of why iWork became free - most did not consider it worth paying anything for. And other "solutions" like OpenOffice are flat out crud.

Office for iOS will be here this year. Not years down the road. And yes Office Mac 2014 is also coming - remember Microsoft follows a "tick tock" with Office where Office Mac follows Office by a year.

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