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Huh? What does this have to do with Gates? Under Gates leadership MS has been developing software for Apple since the 90's. Edit: Fixed possible factual error.
They've released for Apple since basically forever. The Apple II shipped with Microsoft Basic for a while, IIRC.
PowerPoint: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-powerpoint-for-ipa...
MS is changing, and make no mistake, this has started with Ballmer. If you watch(ed) the press conf, it's quite apparent. App store for Android, Office for iPad, AD for Azure.. quite nice stuff, that's what we expect from a software giant: just release stuff for everything, everywhere, and make things be able to work with each other nicely. Good to see that, competition is always good for the users, and Apple, Google…
It's not changing, expensive subscription for editing is the proof. Same greedy corporation which cares about its cash cows.
Does the new Office look good? Yes.
The pricing structure is interesting: Free to view, requires an expensive Office 365 subscription to edit. Seems like they're missing an opportunity to drive adoption of Office as an online platform. Why would I want to publish using Office instead of Google Docs when I can't assume that people I send the Office doc to will be able to edit it? Sure, Office is better, but not better enough to overcome that. If it was…
I wouldn't exactly call office 365 that expensive. It's $100/4yrs for students (university) and $100/yr for 5 users. That's hardly expensive. (Sure if you live alone it's more expensive, but you could probably just pair up with friends/family to split the cost)
MS is changing, and make no mistake, this has started with Ballmer. If you watch(ed) the press conf, it's quite apparent. App store for Android, Office for iPad, AD for Azure.. quite nice stuff, that's what we expect from a software giant: just release stuff for everything, everywhere, and make things be able to work with each other nicely. Good to see that, competition is always good for the users, and Apple, Google…
It's not changing, expensive subscription for editing is the proof. Same greedy corporation which cares about its cash cows.
MS is changing, and make no mistake, this has started with Ballmer. If you watch(ed) the press conf, it's quite apparent. App store for Android, Office for iPad, AD for Azure.. quite nice stuff, that's what we expect from a software giant: just release stuff for everything, everywhere, and make things be able to work with each other nicely. Good to see that, competition is always good for the users, and Apple, Google…
It's not changing, expensive subscription for editing is the proof. Same greedy corporation which cares about its cash cows.
MS is changing, and make no mistake, this has started with Ballmer. If you watch(ed) the press conf, it's quite apparent. App store for Android, Office for iPad, AD for Azure.. quite nice stuff, that's what we expect from a software giant: just release stuff for everything, everywhere, and make things be able to work with each other nicely. Good to see that, competition is always good for the users, and Apple, Google…
The most exciting thing would be Mono becoming a first-class citizen for .NET.
I think this is likely for two reasons:
1) They may well acquire Xamarin, which would result in them 'owning' Mono.
2) The new CEO has been extremely forward thinking vs the rest of Microsoft on supporting open source software on Azure.
3) Increasing amounts of ASP.NET and other .NET technologies are open source now
I would love for them to do this. I think they'd also do very well out of it, as Azure is great platform.
MS is changing, and make no mistake, this has started with Ballmer. If you watch(ed) the press conf, it's quite apparent. App store for Android, Office for iPad, AD for Azure.. quite nice stuff, that's what we expect from a software giant: just release stuff for everything, everywhere, and make things be able to work with each other nicely. Good to see that, competition is always good for the users, and Apple, Google…
It's not changing, expensive subscription for editing is the proof. Same greedy corporation which cares about its cash cows.
Excel and PowerPoint are live already. Excel: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-excel-for-ipad/id5... PowerPoint: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-powerpoint-for-ipa...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? What does this have to do with Gates? Under Gates leadership MS has been developing software for Apple since the 90's. Edit: Fixed possible factual error.
They've released for Apple since basically forever. The Apple II shipped with Microsoft Basic for a while, IIRC.