Microsoft Office

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Microsoft Office

What are the chances of getting this on the iPad?

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Re: Microsoft Office

I could see it happening. But are people really going to do a lot of spreadsheets and word processing on the touch screen?

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Re: Microsoft Office

Katherine K wrote:
I could see it happening. But are people really going to do a lot of spreadsheets and word processing on the touch screen?

Apple obviously thinks so, thus iWork for the iPad.

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I already have documents to go with the Google docs integration. I see no reason for this not to work on the ipad. I do think however that Microsoft will jump into the water on this one. There are some people who prefer that office suite of applications. I don't think that people will really be doing hardcore document, spreadsheet, slide creation on this device but having the functionality makes it tempting for people and in a pinch you'll like to have it.

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I wonder how easily NeoOffice (OS X's version of OpenOffice) could be ported to the iPad?

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As a student, I'm hoping MS will get on board with that...especially since school is the main reason I'm buying the iPad.

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LadyHoneyBabe wrote:
As a student, I'm hoping MS will get on board with that...especially since school is the main reason I'm buying the iPad.

what's the difference when iWork will read/save .doc files?

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KarlHungus wrote:
I wonder how easily NeoOffice (OS X's version of OpenOffice) could be ported to the iPad?

This would be great... but would Apple approve an app that directly competes with iWork??

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Would they be able to deny it on any other grounds than trying to reduce competition? Wouldn't the PR on a move like that be too bad?