“One of Microsoft’s California offices has a team dedicated to the iPad, iPhoneDevCamp founder Raven Zachary overheard today,” Electronista reports.
“Two Microsoft employees in Seattle were heard discussing an ‘iPad group'” present in the state,” Electronista reports. “It wasn’t certain from the conversation whether it was a group studying the iPad or writing apps.”
Electronista reports, “Previous stories have surfaced of Microsoft writing iPad apps. What these may be still isn’t known but could include ports of existing iPhone apps like Bing as well as possible productivity apps, although iWork and Documents To Go have already filled the niches for some.
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MS is so weird. There a software company that attacks platforms instead of writing software for them and making money. No wonder they fail at so many things, their not focused on their main job, writing software.
Steve H is right. Microsoft pissed away 3 years of field testing mobile touch interface code writing, the results of which could easily have been rolled into their new mobile platform. If there are any smart people left at MS, they won’t pass up a second chance to print money.
Steve H is right. Microsoft pissed away 3 years of field testing mobile touch interface code writing, the results of which could easily have been rolled into their new mobile platform. If there are any smart people left at MS, they won’t pass up a second chance to print money.
Right. Back to the roots boys, when you were earning money by writing soft for Apple.
Right. Back to the roots boys, when you were earning money by writing soft for Apple.
Mark:
Your = “Your” group.
You’re = “You Are” in a group.
Basic grammar that you’re going to have to learn.
Mark:
Your = “Your” group.
You’re = “You Are” in a group.
Basic grammar that you’re going to have to learn.
I wouldn’t be concerned that MS products on the iPad would crash. After all, they’d have to get through the same approval process as any other apps do. The reason I wouldn’t buy anything from MS is just that they don’t have anything I want. iWork rocks!
-jcr
I wouldn’t be concerned that MS products on the iPad would crash. After all, they’d have to get through the same approval process as any other apps do. The reason I wouldn’t buy anything from MS is just that they don’t have anything I want. iWork rocks!
-jcr
@ Scottm
it’s “They’re” not “There”.
@ Scottm
it’s “They’re” not “There”.
They’re, there, their, they all sound the same, even to a Newfie.
They’re, there, their, they all sound the same, even to a Newfie.
except newfies would pronounce it thusly:
De’re, dere, and deir
except newfies would pronounce it thusly:
De’re, dere, and deir
It is pretty obvious. The full screen mode in Word 2011 looks totally iPad.
http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/word/item/edf0d81b-8769-4c8e-8bb7-cfe5cc55af6f
It is pretty obvious. The full screen mode in Word 2011 looks totally iPad.
http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/word/item/edf0d81b-8769-4c8e-8bb7-cfe5cc55af6f
Apple has already sold over 7 million iPads. There’ll be tens of millions of iPads out there next year. Sure Microsoft would prefer to replace those iPads with Windows slates but the reality is that millions of iPads are out there and they have to take advantage of that situation, which is write apps for the iPad and sell them. It’s another business opportunity for them.
Microsoft will take the long-term approach to gain share in the tablet platform/OS market but, in the meantime, they’re going to develop iPad apps that they know that iPad owners will buy. It’ll become another profit center for them so why wouldn’t they do it? Why do they continue development of the Office for Mac? It makes them money. An iPad version of the Office that allows full file compatibility (if not all of the functions) would be welcomed by many iPad owners who do not want to carry around both an iPad and a notebook for business.
Apple has already sold over 7 million iPads. There’ll be tens of millions of iPads out there next year. Sure Microsoft would prefer to replace those iPads with Windows slates but the reality is that millions of iPads are out there and they have to take advantage of that situation, which is write apps for the iPad and sell them. It’s another business opportunity for them.
Microsoft will take the long-term approach to gain share in the tablet platform/OS market but, in the meantime, they’re going to develop iPad apps that they know that iPad owners will buy. It’ll become another profit center for them so why wouldn’t they do it? Why do they continue development of the Office for Mac? It makes them money. An iPad version of the Office that allows full file compatibility (if not all of the functions) would be welcomed by many iPad owners who do not want to carry around both an iPad and a notebook for business.
C1?
C1?
No mystery here. Microsoft is working on an iPad app that makes the iPad user interface look like Windows 95.
No mystery here. Microsoft is working on an iPad app that makes the iPad user interface look like Windows 95.
Microsoft is so disparate to make something right the first time that they decided to work on the Mac first.
Then they can show the rest of the crew on Redmond’s campus what it looks like. Then they hand it over to the patent reverse engineering group for product development that skirts the patents that Apple has. Once completed, they haul out the banners, tout innovation, and say they are looking to make the next revolution.
It would be so much cheaper for them to ask Apple to build a MS branded Mac with an Apple version, done right, of their crappy OS.
Hopefully would wake up from the horror-if not, heading to the emergency room ASAP! Wow, think I made myself sick…..
Microsoft is so disparate to make something right the first time that they decided to work on the Mac first.
Then they can show the rest of the crew on Redmond’s campus what it looks like. Then they hand it over to the patent reverse engineering group for product development that skirts the patents that Apple has. Once completed, they haul out the banners, tout innovation, and say they are looking to make the next revolution.
It would be so much cheaper for them to ask Apple to build a MS branded Mac with an Apple version, done right, of their crappy OS.
Hopefully would wake up from the horror-if not, heading to the emergency room ASAP! Wow, think I made myself sick…..