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> On Apr 15, 2014, at 21:24, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The below article mentions that the up-coming Office for Mac has been rebuilt > in Cocoa, the Mac's native programming language, so there's a good chance it > will have taken advantage of all Apple's built-in accessibility. Here's > hoping. > > http://www.macworld.com/article/2141101/five-interesting-tidbits-from-the-office-for-ipad-ama.html#tk.rss_all > > Microsoft does Reddit: Five cool things we learned about Office for iPad > > > Apps > Don’t look now, but the Office for iPad team ventured onto Reddit for one of > the service's Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions. Here are the five most > intriguing things they said. > > The Office for iPad team and Office for Mac team are one and the same > > Not a big surprise, but the folks who built the Office for iPad apps are the > same ones who are working on Office for Mac. And it’s a pretty Mac-centric > group, too; According to the team, “everyone has an iPad, and the Mac:PC > ratio is 16:1.” Don’t expect them to reveal when the next version of Office > might make its way to the Mac, however; when asked, the group would only say > “we are working on the next version.” > > Office for iPad was built from the ground up, and shares code with OS X > > One of the nicest things about the new Office apps is that they feel fluid > and comfortable on the iPad, and the back-end code is part of the reason for > that: According to one of the Word developers, the team “started with the Mac > Office code base, and ported it from [the older OS X Carbon infrastructure] > to Cocoa/UIKit.” In fact, building the iPad versions of the Office apps is > actually helping the team rebuild Office for Mac: When it arrives, the OS X > suite should be fully built in the modern Cocoa infrastructure—resulting in > faster and more responsive versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. > > Ballmer approved Office for iPad > > While the Office for iPad team didn’t comment directly about the app suite’s > rumored shelving/delays over the years, the team’s technical product manager > did let slip that it was Ballmer who approved Office for iPad’s release, not > new CEO Satya Nadella. > > Hate all you want on Clippy, but Max was pretty cool > > > Max = so much cooler than Clippy. > > There were plenty of comments in the AMA both praising and insulting Office’s > old mascot/3D-assistant Clippy, but one of the Office for iPad team’s Word > developers pointed out an important detail in that debate: Clippy wasn’t > actually called Clippy on the Mac—he was Max. “Max was an icon of a Mac SE, > and, when he got bored, he’d turn himself into a Rubik’s Cube. In typical Mac > fashion, Clippy was lame. Max was cool.” > > Macworld has a hidden presence in the Microsoft’s Silicon Valley offices > > Microsoft iPad for Office team > When asked about “cool vintage Apple products” hidden in the Office for iPad > team’s offices, Derek Johnson pointed out that there are quite a few Macworld > Eddys and MacUser awards hanging out in Silicon Valley above a bar made > entirely of Office for Mac boxes. Also, a G4 cubequarium (which is sadly not > Macworld-related, but pretty cool all the same). > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
