NiKKoM said:
Bringing the most used stand-alone office software to a rival OS and tablet wasn't really the best of interest for MS.. in the past.. Office should have been their killer app for their tablet.. but since they were way too late to the tablet party and with Office turned into a software as service model there isn't really a barrier anymore not to release it.. imo every piece of software (even games) will use a service model in the future making the device which it runs on non-important.. |
Would be great if the last bit came true. An android Nokia phone and now office for the iPad makes me think MS is slowly waking up to this. Give it a few more years and there will be office on Linux (native).
The truth is with google offering similar services for "free" on all platforms MS had no choice but to react.
This is good news for iPad users that would find it useful but I will wait to see how many of them who have done without it for years really care.
