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Thursday marks the first major event hosted by new Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella, where the company is also expected to unveil a long awaited version of its Office productivity suite for Apple's iPad. AppleInsider is there live with up-to-the-second coverage.
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Never thought I'd see the day where the Apple Faithful get excited about a MS Conference. I expect MS to release it for free subject to an office 365 subscription. That way they get to both push the subscription model down people's throats & avoid paying Apple 30%
Wow! They are really doing their show using iPad (target may be)
Such and IBM-esque problem: Provide a full iOS version of Office and risk cannibalizing Microsoft tablet/PC sales, or don't provide an iOS version and risk driving their flagship productivity software toward irrelevance.
My guess (and it's only a guess) would be that Ballmer wanted to put the tablet PC first and Nadella will instead want to tap into the potential iOS revenue stream.
And there you have it: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2113980/microsoft-announces-office-for-ipad-extending-productivity-to-all-ios-devices.html
I think that a lot of people around going to balk at $99/year even if that does cover 5 Macs/PCs and 5 mobile devices. Especially since every iPad can open any docx/xlsx/pptx document natively at no additional cost, and the availability of many Office-compatible iOS apps at a fraction of this price. I guess time will tell.