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On Apr 16, 2014, at 11:12 AM, 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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