Microsoft will still be denying the existence of Office for iOS a month after they launch it.

Nice!  Hope this happens - would love to have Office on my iPad. 

Can't wait to see the power of Office in my iPhone 4s.

This means essentially nothing at all.

Note the completely non-standard dialogues that appear to violate terms of the app store. This whole "Office for iOS" project is still looking far more like "Office 360 subscription for iOS" than actual apps.

Metro interface? Yeah, I'll stick with iWork.

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

Microsoft will still be denying the existence of Office for iOS a month after they launch it.

I was just gonna say...They'll remove the references and say no, were not making iOS apps. We've only leaked it many times and denied it every time. 

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Originally Posted by Freshmaker 

Nice!  Hope this happens - would love to have Office on my iPad. 

This.

Really.

Microsoft Business Division (Office) is the largest profit maker in Redmond, and has to continue to grow it's revenues to keep the value of the company up.   If the iPad is the growing market share for 'mobile creation' (replacing windows laptops), I can't see this division losing an argument to deploy an iOS suite of apps to drive eyeballs to Office365.com.  Doubly so if Win8 and Surface fail miserably.

This is a political bomb inside the Corporate offices.  People buy Windows... to run Word.  If people don't have to buy windows, they won't.  If they don't buy windows, the Microsoft Server Server Division (IIS, SQL, etc.) as well as  Windows, die a miserable death, which is about 60% of their profits.  But, is maintaining Office as a cash cow on all platforms better than hitching your wagon to the crash landing called Win8 and never being able to recover?

Ballmer (more likely, his successor) will have a hard decision to make in about 9 months.

Meh. But for some users, it is welcome news. The more options for iPad users the better.

Somehow Microsoft feels like they have some sort of brand loyalty and that people flock to their products.  They have certainly acted this way toward Windows Phone and now Windows 8.  Slap a Windows name on it and they will come.  Reality is that people use Windows and Office, but they don't really love this products.  Either is was a standard they had to comply with or someone else made the purchasing decision for them.

People who chose OS X / iOS over Windows have been met with truly inferior MS products.  On the Mac side Office is a hog, and the Outlook product is terrible.  Get use to hanging and spinning beach balls.

This bring me to the iPhone which has been graced with a Microsoft Lync client.  A buggy, unusable, confusing piece of junk.  Go checkout the reviews.  If this is anything like what we can expect from Office on iOS, then go and buy the iWork apps now and move on.

Microsoft has been trying to protect its Windows monopoly, but in those efforts they are risking the Office monopoly.  I bet in 5 years they have neither.

Ah, MS Office%u2026 I simply can't wait to attach a manure spreader to my Ferrari. Quick, somebody gag me before I convulse and shriek like a 12-year-old girl at a boy band concert.

It's time for Apple to release a grown-up version of iWork, and put a stop to this mandatory bloatware, once and for all. Seeing competition restored in the productivity app marketplace is a consummation devoutly to be wished.