There are many, many, reasons why you might want to put Windows on your Mac still, even if Office becomes fully accessible. If they do it right, Office could be best of all on Mac, but there are plenty of things you still can't do, and might want to. Teamtalk is easier in Windows, many games don't work on Mac, etc, etc. Office being accessible would remove one of the most oft given reasons for not switching though.
Cheers Dave On 16 Apr 2014, at 19:12, Kawal Gucukoglu <kawa...@me.com> wrote: > You will never need to put windows on your Mac again if office comes to be > accessible! I would certainly buy it for that reason. > >> On 16 Apr 2014, at 04:52 pm, Deb Lewis <deblewi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Well the biggest reason I would buy it in a heart beat is that all the >> formatting would be once again compatible with that of my co workers. >> Believe me, it never is from Pages and my co workers tell me that even >> the current Mac Office is not really compatible. So it'sin everyone's >> interest for this to work better including accessibility of course. >> >>> On 4/16/14, Annie Skov Nielsen <annieskovniel...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> For me there would be good reasons to by office if it becomes accessible. As >>> I experience it headings on different levels works better, I can not figure >>> out this in pages. I have never ever got it to work quick and easy to make a >>> document with table of content, and I really say quick and easy, I will not >>> spend a lot of time on such a task. Now I have in fact found a way to do >>> that, that is quick and easy, I think I will tell about it some day in the >>> future, but pages were not helpfull for that task. >>> >>> Best regards Annie. >>>> Den 16/04/2014 kl. 17.23 skrev Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com>: >>>> >>>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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