This kind of feature set offering would work more for Corporate users than for the General Public, but then Office was never intended for the general public anyway.

The other question is will it be released as a Suite or as individual apps. If they price too high compared to Pages it won’t sell beyond folks that need Word compatibility. If iPad usage grows large enough, MS will HAVE to release Word for iOS to keep its hardware partners from going under. A cross-platform office suite might be just the thing. Then, they can use the iOS profits to finance Windows RT and try to Muscle out Apple in a decade or so.

I’ve had it explained to me, and it makes sense, in the kind of logic that only a lawyer could love.

In fact I wrote something about it a couple of days ago.

http://carlomazzini.blogspot.com/2012/05/future-of-microsoftof.html

I don’t mean to be a hit whore. Sorry about the link.

Keep preaching the iOS and Apple gospel at your law firm. Law firms take FOREVER to change. Hell, some firms still use Word Perfect and insist on transmitting documents by fax. But even blacksmiths eventually drove cars.

With that being said, while Pages and Numbers are great, they aren’t powerful enough for many professional users including lawyers. Until Apple beefs up iWork, it is unrealistic to expect iWork to replace MS Office on the desktop in many professional environments including law offices.

I dont know office on a touchscreen device. Scary. I mean look at windows 7 phone and then the touch elements on win 8. Crappy and something out of the mid 90s

Best comment all year.

Actually, they should probably hurry, before Samsung comes out with an identical-looking “Samsung Office App for Android” first. Microsoft’s copiers will have to work double-time to copy faster than Samsung’s copiers.