I am holding out for Office on iOS, which current rumors point to March 2013.
The current Office on OSX is quite nice, Excel performs really well and in Powerpoint there is this nice 3d layer editor.
Office on Tablets needs to be re-thought. What do you really do on a tablet? Looking at the use cases in the corporate world, it is not about creating complex spreadsheets from scratch. It is about viewing, filtering and data entry.
Hey, please enter your forecast numbers and send back. Hey, these are our numbers, columns B, N and Z are super important, etc.
Excel and Powerpoint are key in corporate. Word is dying, killed by Outlook.
Tablet users need to be able to open an email attachment, browse through it efficiently, maybe correct a bit and then send back.
This points to a separate Office for Tablets. MS had special Office viewer apps in the past. Apple has Keynote, etc on iOS. If it is a separate team at MS working on this, they just might have enough freedom to pull it off.
The current Office on OSX is quite nice, Excel performs really well and in Powerpoint there is this nice 3d layer editor.
Office on Tablets needs to be re-thought. What do you really do on a tablet? Looking at the use cases in the corporate world, it is not about creating complex spreadsheets from scratch. It is about viewing, filtering and data entry.
Hey, please enter your forecast numbers and send back. Hey, these are our numbers, columns B, N and Z are super important, etc.
Excel and Powerpoint are key in corporate. Word is dying, killed by Outlook.
Tablet users need to be able to open an email attachment, browse through it efficiently, maybe correct a bit and then send back.
This points to a separate Office for Tablets. MS had special Office viewer apps in the past. Apple has Keynote, etc on iOS. If it is a separate team at MS working on this, they just might have enough freedom to pull it off.