{"id":2665,"date":"2011-12-01T16:31:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2011-12-01T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:31:33","slug":"microsoft-office-for-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/microsoft-office-for-the-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office for the iPad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft have finally realised that they need to do something for the iPad.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/7389\/Tablets\/\" target=\"_blank\">tablet computing<\/a> is where everybody wants to be. Manufacturers and users want in on the tablet action. Just look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/2011\/09\/amazon-unveil-the-kindle-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Kindle Fire<\/a>. If the rumour mill is to be believed, Microsoft is working on an iPad version of its highly popular office software suite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Microsoft+Office\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a tablet owner, I can honestly say opening documents &amp; spreadsheets (non PDF) is nothing short of a nightmare. As much as I love Apple\u2019s Pages and Numbers software on my iPad, I often have massive compatibility issues.\u00a0 Having to re-save documents is a common experience and is hugely frustrating.\u00a0 In short Microsoft making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Apple+iPad\" target=\"_blank\">iPad<\/a> apps for the Office franchise makes complete sense.<\/p>\n<p>I think there might also be another reason for the sudden re-emergence of this story. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Microsoft+Windows\" target=\"_blank\">Windows<\/a> based tablet which Steve Ballmer always mentions in analyst calls, might be a real thing. As much as the Apple kingdom owns the cellphone and tablet space, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> still has market ownership of the desktop software space. Having nothing for any tablet device is a bad idea as tablet computing will be big. Microsoft Windows 8 is most probably going to have a tablet flavour.\u00a0 Ensuring that their Office software is available to the public would be a very good barometer on what Microsoft potentially might do in the tablet space.\u00a0 So Mr Ballmer, can I please get a copy of your software for my iPad?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft-Office-Tablet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2666\" title=\"Microsoft Office Tablet\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft-Office-Tablet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft have finally realised that they need to do something for the iPad.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it; tablet computing is where everybody wants to be. Manufacturers and users want in on the tablet action. Just look at the Amazon Kindle Fire. If the rumour mill is to be believed, Microsoft is working on an iPad version<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/microsoft-office-for-the-ipad\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}