“Microsoft is planning a version of its Office business app for the iPad,” Matt Hickey reports for The Daily.
“According to sources, the tech giant is actively working on adapting its popular software suite for Apple’s tablet,” Hickey reports. “With the iPad making up over 80 percent of the tablet market and millions of people worldwide using Office, that could mean big bucks for the tech giant based in Redmond, Wash.”
Hickey reports, “Microsoft already has numerous popular — and some not so popular — apps available for the iPad. They include Bing, MSN Onit and MSN OnPoint. There are even more available for iPhone, including Microsoft Tag, Windows Live Messenger and Wonderwall.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Office? How quaint. We’ve been using Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on our Macs – and, of course, iPads – for so long now, we’d forgotten Office even existed. Lucky us! Thanks, Daily, for the ugly reminder.
For the great unwashed, though, just this rumor alone will sell even more iPads. As with their new Macs, they can figure out on their own time that they don’t need Office for iPad. The “must-have” myth is powerful for the uninitiated.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K. for the heads up.]