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Word on iPad

Posted on December 2nd, 2011 at 16:08 by Paul Jay in category: News -- Write a comment

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Today’s juicy Apple rumor is that Microsoft is planning to bring some form of its Office software suite to the iPad. For a company whose business is based on selling software for the most popular hardware platforms, this make a lot of sense. And for customers using the ubiquitous Word application, it’s huge.

  1. Mykolas on December 2nd, 2011 at 16:45:

    HHmm – must have run this goodie:
    Sub ShowAllToolbars()
    ‘loop variable
    Dim i As Integer

    ‘ Loop through the total number of toolbars.
    For i = 1 To Application.Toolbars.Count

    ‘ Show each toolbar.
    Application.Toolbars(i).Visible = True

    ‘ End of loop.
    Next i

    End Sub

  2. Desiato on December 2nd, 2011 at 17:42:

    Yes, what a crime it is that Word had a fully configurable UI where almost any command was available as a button to add to your toolbars if you wanted to. The horror.

  3. Jan-Mark on December 2nd, 2011 at 18:43:

    @Desiato: Yes, that is horrible indeed. It is a prime example of giving customers what they ask. Serves them right. ;-)

  4. Desiato on December 2nd, 2011 at 20:22:

    Right, if only they listened to Steve Jobs, they’d know customers have no clue what they should want.

  5. Roland Hesz on December 2nd, 2011 at 21:45:

    If only they listened to Steve Jobs, they would have ended up with iWork, which is one of the most user unfriendly office suits I’ve ever seen.

    If someone is stupid, then yes. Not much room down there.

  6. Desiato on December 2nd, 2011 at 23:18:

    iWork is what you build when Microsoft is already putting out Office for your OS…

    Imagine if Amazon had listened to Jobs when he said that nobody reads anymore…

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