iPAD owners running the software will be assisting the folks to became accustomed to the WINDOWS 8 way of working.

THERE will be those who defect to WIN8 tablets – so let them now – their are PC tablets out there already — WINDOWS will make iPAD look inferior – as they tried with WORD on mac.

SCAM

For Microsoft it also keeps people using Office, and would stop migration to Pages Note and Numbers.

GOOGLE has iDOCs in the cloud. I believe this is way ahead of all the competition. It would have been wise APPLE did it this way. Not to defend them – but they do have the right idea – GOOGLE DOES.

No upgrades – No downloads – it works – and a CLOUD concept before APPLE made their iCloud public.

Despite MS’ decline there are still people who *think* they need Office. This will remove another barrier to the iPad for them.

From a programming perspective coding for touch interfaces is not much different from coding for a mouse driven UI. The real challenge is designing your UI layout in a manner that is fluid for the end user.

I’m surprised how well CloudOn works really. I’m not a big excel user but both my mom and uncle are, they both said it works great. My mom has an iPad 2 and my uncle will be buying one this week or so. (for his new business an iPad is going to replace his current setup)

As big as the ipad has become, MS had no choice but to get on the train.

That said, I’m sure they’re thinking it’s still the 1990s and the masses will buy a MS tablet because, well, it’s from Microsoft .

They’ll get some suckers and IT goons with that approach. For the rest of us, time has marched on.

Same as Apple does not need Flash on iPad to sell more.

MS now needs to figure out how to do touch interfaces and its only real test environment is the iPad. So it will push Office onto iPad and get some experience with it before having to ship a version for Win8.

Sadly for all, MS will almost certainly cripple the iPad version (relative to its Win8 version), leading to a poor experience for iPad users, and fewer sales for MS. They never seem to learn…

A few design ideas using the IPOD nano as a watch now is android watch — NOW here is good MOVE for GOOGLE.. make something different – innovate with ideas floating around the net… this is fair…

APPEL should have done it long ago — but has not.

But i bet if APPLE wishes they WILL DO IT BETTER..
how

SIRI – on such a small device – SIRI make more sense…

IF you want choice USE iDOCs on Google – heavens forbid.

Methinks that the mobile version of Office has no chance to ever become the cash cow that the PC version is/was.

Regardless, Microsoft Office for iPad can only be considered a good thing for the platform. Like it or not, MS Office is the gold standard for productivity apps in the Enterprise. As much as it may hurt WP7′s adoption, Microsoft doesn’t have a viable competitor in the tablet space right now. And with as much momentum as Apple has in that market, particularly in the enterprise, they’re losing out on quite a few potential customers.

Besides, OSes were never Microsoft’s cash cow. They may have put Microsoft on the map, but Office has always been a huge profit center for them, both on Windows and on the Mac.

It will sell another several million iPads at least and round out the device. Microsoft has no choice but to play along with this. It’s fantastic!

Is WOA DOA?

(Windows On Arm)

That said, Keynote is much better than PowerPoint. I work in a mixed Windows/OSX environment and .pptx files and files made with the Windows version of Powerpoint are better opened with Keynote than my old version of MS Office for Mac (it’s at least two versions old, so I can’t blame MS for the fact I haven’t upgraded…well, I can, since I hated the last two versions after a test upgrade). Fonts look nicer, too. Jebus I hate Helvetica in MS applications. It looks like shizzle.

Pages is fine Word replacement for a tablet.

I want to like Numbers, but I don’t have time to transition.

I’ll stick with Documenta to Go for now. I don’t do much editing on the iPad as incompatibilities invariably arise because the simplified interface on the iPad messes with deep level formatting on the document. For review and editing of Office documents I turn to my Mac.

=:~)

I installed Cloudon, it already allows you to run Word, Excel, powerpoint on an iPad. Requires Dropbox for syncing though. And haven’t checked for sure but may also require to be online at all times..

but it’s free. Best price for office