Microsoft rumored to be working on Office for iPad
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Since Apple has already established a $10 price point for its productivity iPad apps, such as Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, The Daily is speculating that Microsoft will release around the same $10 mark in order to be competitive.
Microsoft is also working on the next edition of Office that will be fully compatible with OS X Lion as well as the latest release of Windows for PC. Both of these pieces of software are expected to hit shelves sometime in mid to late 2012. An Office for iPad release could occur ahead of those releases, but until there is an official announcement, it is probably safest to look toward the second half of 2012 for this release.
source: The Daily via Neowin
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7 Comments
1. nanozander posted on 29 Nov 2011, 22:03 0
You've gotta be kidding me. Microsoft on an apple product? Even though i seem to recall that OSx has their own version of Microsoft Office.. Still kinda hard to believe.
7. remixfa posted on 30 Nov 2011, 06:57 0
why wouldnt they open themselves up to a few million more customers? its just good business.
Besides, for the longest time, apple devices had to run with "windows compatibility mode" in order to have decent programs. :)
2. bigboy029 posted on 29 Nov 2011, 22:04 1
Awesome news!! Pages is ok...I think it works well but nobody else really uses it. I think the iPad will be much more efficient now with MS word. Honestly I don\'t know why this didnt happen earlier.
3. JGuinan007 posted on 29 Nov 2011, 22:26 0
NO!!! Thats lets APPLE take over the business market !!!! No!!!!!
4. Penny posted on 29 Nov 2011, 23:31 0
Strictly within the Office division of Microsoft, this is huge. But in the OS division of Microsoft...I dunno. It seems like handing over your secret weapon to the enemy.
5. tuminatr posted on 29 Nov 2011, 23:33 0
they should do this for android too, smart to catch all the revenue they can
6. BattleBrat posted on 30 Nov 2011, 01:17 0
FINALLY!!! I planned on buying the iPad 3 but wondered how useful it would be with just iWork, now I don't have to settle.
