Because apparently, things that can be done in Office cannot be done in Pages? On Apr 16, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote:
> Why buy office when Pages is free? > > Devin Prater > Sent from my iPod 5. > iMessage, facebook, and face-time: devinpra...@live.com > email: d.pra...@me.com > Google Talk/keychat: r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com > > 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 oldmascot/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 tomacvisionaries+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 tomacvisionaries+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.
