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Microsoft Office for iPad

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announces that Office for iPad, consisting of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, is finally released. The Apps can view Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents for free. Each App weighs in at over 200 MB.

PowerPoint Excel Word

“To create and edit, an Office 365 subscription is needed.”

The Microsoft Office Apps offer In-App Purchase of Office 365 Home Annual Subscription for $99. Assuming the 70-30 split is still in place, Apple is getting $29.70 for each subscription made through the App.

Office 365 In-App Purchase in IOS

Office 365 Home Subscription includes:

  • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more
  • Install on 5 PCs and Macs
  • Use on mobile devices (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)
  • 20GB of additional OneDrive Storage
  • Skype world minutes when available

Microsoft should have released Office for iPad sooner. Quickoffice and iWork Apps (Keynote, Numbers and Pages) are fully capable of replacing Microsoft Office.

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Microsoft Update Tuesday for August 2008

August 12th, 2008. Second Tuesday of the Month. Happy Microsoft Patch Tuesday!

Microsoft unleashes updates for Windows and Office products. Windows users should be getting the notifications through Windows Update/Microsoft Update. As usual, WGA (not Writers Guild of America) is still in effect.

For Mac users, you can either let Microsoft AutoUpdate takes care of the updates or get it straight from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.1 Update
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Update

Have a safe Tuesday!

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update, It’s a Big One.

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Microsoft releases the first real update to Office 2008 for Mac. The update weighs in at 114MB (English version).

This update fixes critical issues in Office 2008, including issues that might cause Office 2008 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly.

Released: Tuesday, March 11, 2008

.dmg file size: 114mb

For more info, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx

About the update:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948057

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Great comment on Word on Slashdot…

This pretty much sums up my experiences with Microsoft Word:

The way it works isn’t the problem

I read TFA, and these guys seem to be worried about the wrong thing. Word menus, etc, are easy enough to deal with. What makes it a god-forsaken piece of s**t are all the bugs. Documents are always getting corrupted, figures don’t do where you want and stay there, can’t save sometimes for no apparent reason, the entire thing just bombs out, etc. We had a “Platinum Support Ticket” or some similar nonsense open on Word for a few years. The upshot, direct from a Microsoft senior support line, was that if we wanted documents to not get corrupted, was to print it out on paper, make sure it was right, then use a scanner and save it as a TIFF. Thanks, that’s good advice.

What is so pathetic is that I have ordinary technical documents from the late 50’s and 60’s that are laid out better, have better graphics, and are still perfectly readable today. While at the same time, a Word document I saved last week either can’t be opened, or has all the symbols corrupted.

Brett

I have seen too many tech articles talking about how great the new Office 2007 is with is “Innovative” new ribbon interface. For gods sake, Microsoft fix Word from being the piece of crap that it is. If Microsoft could fix the program from mangling long documents, then maybe I’d be more excited about their lame new ribbons.

The Article where the comment was quoted from:
Slashdot.org – Goodbye Cruel Word