It seems that, at long last, Microsoft Office is coming to iOS
and Android. Hooray. You'll finally be able to natively edit Word
docs on your iPad as the good Lord intended them to be edited: in a
software package made by Microsoft. A few years ago, this would
have been huge. But times have changed, and Microsoft has a tough
fight to make this long-awaited release matter.
Let's say it's 1998 and you want to write a memo. You want that
memo to look nice, and you want to make sure your boss, who works
on a different kind of computer, has a chance to edit it before you
send it out. Odds are, you're going to use Microsoft Word to write
that memo. Likewise, Microsoft Excel was the spreadsheet program
everyone had. Together, along with their companion applications for
presentations and email management, they formed a juggernaut
productivity suite. There was no touching Microsoft Office. Continue reading