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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Microsoft announced support at the original presentation for the Pro. Probably not much work for them anyway having already ported a form of office to the RT.
Dale
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MS Office has been available on iOS for quite some time now... I guess they just got paid to announce on stage that yes, it will also be available on the iPad Pro...
In fact, there are great productivity apps for all sorts of purposes available. Unfortunately, none of this changes the fact that it is just a large iPad and in its current state can, by design, only be used unefficiently for all sorts of Office tasks (attaching any kind of Bluetooth keyboard to the iPad Air gives you exactly the same kind of experience, only on a smaller screen).
Apple has yet to figure out how to prevent having to lift your arm from the keyboard even for minor adjustments and overall navigation of the device if they do not want to implement a trackpad in the keyboard...
I for one hope that they deliver a really efficient and flawless handwriting recognition so that I could use an iPad as a modern notebook replacement because it will give me digital searchable text that can be copied and edited (on the home computer). So far, all I can do is emulate the process of writing on paper, and even if it looks better than a couple of years ago, it still is a sub-par experience in every respect: one still hasto retype notes, they are not searchable, there is no system wide system in place (to replace the keyboard popup).
iOS, if it is actually supposed to be a real alternative to working on a laptop, needs to improve considerable to justify the device prices. Merely doing some things a little better than Android does not make it a great system, especially considering that it does some things (like file management) considerably worse.