B for beta.

I’m glad you brought a link, because if I had to go with your description, all Comcast did was remove the letters MS from the name.

The other spreadsheets out there are flat out not as good and fall short of Excel. I’m not settling for that crap.

It’s very embarrassing that only mediocre copies and poor attempts come from that company.

But office is not the have all Application that Microsoft thinks it will be, over 75 million iPads sold so far without Microsofts so called much needed office software.

And obviously you haven’t used iWork or any of the other very capable Apps for the iPad that put shame to office.

Anyone that thinks Office is the killer App for any platform is just fooling themselves.

And not ONE Microsoft product needed to sell one iPad, not one.

Office is a has-been product. Tablet’s function different, the consumer and corporate buyers are smarter and they understand the changes that have taken place, it’s without Microsoft this time.

Dozens of applications that do even better then Office and have more to offer, iWork is very capable,and many many more.

Microsoft is trying to go Back in time, while everyone else is going forward, they are still using the same model they have pushed for tablets sales and software from 10 years ago..

They just blew the dust off the manual of failed tablet attempts and are doing it again.

And why would anyone want to be hooked into a money grabbing license cycle by Microsoft again if they can help it, it’s overpriced and very under delivered.

And still very much Vapor-Ware at this time.

Apple is wise to keep iOS apps separate from Mac apps, but it would be wrong to trash MS office’s current desktop capabilities. Just because MS has now made the decision to bloat out its Office suite with touchscreen + pen + “social” and “cloud” subscription-based crap that will end up becoming endless frustration for future users doesn’t mean that Office for Mac 2011 isn’t the only office suite that a modern user can’t actually live without. Anyone who lives in the real world and real people deals with client who ask specifically for Excel and Word files.

Moreover, Steve Jobs knew exactly what he was doing when he forged a partnership with Gates to keep Office on the Mac. Sorry to not agree with the MS haterade spewed here, but Jobs recognized that there are some Excel and Word power users out there that accomplish some really great stuff with its powerful features. Sure, MS started covering it all up under a layer of ribbons and crap, but don’t think for one minute that Apple’s iWork can cut the mustard for serious work. Wish it could, but like i keep saying all the time, the leaders at Apple ARE NOT keeping up the momentum. Go to Apple’s web page now: they are touting iWork 2009. THAT’S 3 FREAKING YEARS AGO. I’d be more circumspect about how bare-boned Apple’s beginner-level office suite is before trashing the hugely dominant one from MS that you haven’t even used (as proudly declared by some people here who bizarrely think ignorance is a positive trait).

What consumer wants to buy yet another subscription service? Fail.

For the iPad, OnLive App gives me Office and works with several cloud apps. No big deal. Don’t use it. Just have it in case I need access to a work file.

Ballmer just Osborned Office 10 for those who were on the bubble as to making a decision purchase. many may now wait to see how it sorts out.

Keep up the good work like its 1995.

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• New subscription services. The new Office is available as a cloud-based subscription service. As subscribers, consumers automatically get future upgrades in addition to exciting cloud services including Skype world minutes and extra SkyDrive storage. Subscribers receive multiple installs for everyone in the family and across their devices.

You won’t own it, but you’ll be RENTING IT!

They will be coming out for a version of Office for touch type devices like the iPad but…..not for the iPad? Ah, so they are planning on going after other devices like Android slate type devices, Kindle’s and possibly this Surface thing that doesn’t exist yet?

Huh? I don’t get it. Why would you go after the smallest of market devices let alone the one that is full of free-tards that wouldn’t pay a dime for software. Then you have all the devices that I’m sure won’t have the guts or power to run MS’s bloated software.

What are they thinking. Are they trying to freeze the market so people won’t go out and buy iPads? Do they think they can make money somehow with this strategy?

I’m confused, please someone explain.

Excel is the one application that Microsoft has produced that no one has been able to beat. I’ve tried them all and while you can find ones that give you 80% of what you might need from Excel that last 20% is a killer and sends you right back to Excel.

Tablet Support? Not really. Touch support, but no iOS apps. Nobody is going to buy a Surface to get Office 2013.

But, WAIT!!! Word has a “Reader” function. Oh, yeah, like the one Safari has had for a while now. But what the hell is he doing with a “Reader” function in a word processor???? Isn’t that kinda the FUNCTION of a word processor, to give you something to read?????

How much more of this ignorance and ugliness will we have to take???

Hell some of their production stuff I’ll only install in a VM! Hehe

The app is “free beta” with Win 8, but you have to pay the subscription fee each month to keep using it?

Disclosure: I use Win 8 on my MacBookPro – as little as I can.

Good news: No BSOD & it didn’t install, after all.

From Cnet: “Not really sure Ballmer should be saying that it feels like 1995.”

This man is a genius when it comes to presentations.