“Apple’s iPad represents one of the most powerful attacks on Microsoft’s Windows stronghold in history,” Jay Yarow writes for The Business Insider. “And Microsoft — the world’s largest software company — is ignoring it.”

MacDailyNews Take: Now, how is that possible, Jay? Microsoft has that genius CEO in place calling all the shots. Come on, get real!

Yarow continues, “Microsoft has no plans to build an iPad friendly version of its Office software, Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s business division, tells Bloomberg. Elop is quoted as saying he’d take a ‘wait and see’ approach, but he also says, ‘We never say never, but we have no current plans.’”

“There is no sign the iPad will be a total flop. Even conservative analyst predictions forecast millions of iPads being sold this year,” Yarow writes. “And while Microsoft twiddles its thumbs, waiting and seeing how many people buy an iPad, Apple’s word processor, Pages, is already on sale — and in early going, it’s the top grossing iPad app on iTunes.”

Yarow writes, “If Microsoft doesn’t make its own suite of apps for the iPad, or iPhone for that matter, then someone else will. Right now, it’s Apple. Tommorrow it could be some other startup. Google just announced that it was optimizing its email and other apps for the iPad. Google Docs probably aren’t far behind. Microsoft’s Office empire is under attack… Microsoft is not safe. It is very exposed.”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: As we have always said, even as many short-sightedly waved (and continue to wave) the white flag, the war is not over. And, yes, we shall prevail… No company is invincible. Not even Microsoft. – MacDailyNews Take, January 10, 2005

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