RE[4]: Office obsession.
Thankfully, there is such a thing as PDF when it comes to sharing read-only documents and presentations. Considering that even Office struggles staying compatible with its own file formats, I think...
View ArticleRE[3]: Office obsession.
Trouble is, you never know when a home user will want to share a document with someone and you can't predict what that someone will be running. There's as much incompatibility between the various...
View ArticleRE[2]: Office obsession.
Fair, but I'm talking about home use. These are usually simple documents where they don't need to share between different programs. Funny, at work we always have to save documents back to the oldest...
View ArticleRE[2]: Race to the bottom
Says every iOS user on the planet Of course, you can also have a shit tablet with those features, as many have been released Edited 2013-06-07 18:14 UTC
View ArticleRE: Office obsession.
Obviously you've never tried to share documents between Office alternatives and genuine Office. If you did, you'd not say these things. Even different versions of Office don't share that well between...
View ArticleOffice obsession.
I really don't understand why so many people "need" office. Free alternatives have been out there for years, and for what most people use it for it's good enough. Heck, Google Docs even has some...
View ArticleRE: Race to the bottom
High end does not mean it has every feature. When the Nexus 7 came out it had the highest resolution, fastest processor, and most RAM in the segment. I think the sd card and rear facing camera are just...
View ArticleRE: Unique Selling Point
Heck, if you take this idea and run with it to its logical conclusion, MS should totally forget about inventing some marginally better mouse with a 'Start screen' button on, and take a leaf from...
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If MS wants to sell small, low-cost Win x86/RT tablets by bundling Office on them, it needs to demonstrate one unique use-case which any potential buyer will instantly 'get': 1. Remove tablet from...
View ArticleRE: Usability
Office works well enough with touch, you can simply zoom, and use the left and right cursors for targeting. Note: Office app's also make an appearance on windows phone devices which have tiny 4" screens.
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The article barely touched upon what I think will be the biggest downside to using Office on 7 and 8-inch screens, and that is the utter unusability of the Office interface on a screen that size. There...
View ArticleRE[2]: Just how many are confused really?
I should have made my point better. I was not saying they gave anecdotes, I was saying I could give my anecdotes to support a point, and other people could pile on and provide theirs, but in the end...
View ArticleRace to the bottom
When it comes to a race to the bottom in the 7-8" tablet space, I think Android has that exact problem. When the Nexus 7 came out, it was a good tablet for the price, but it wasn't exactly high-end....
View ArticleRE: Just how many are confused really?
I don't see any anecdotes in the article which are cited in support of the idea that different editions of Office on different size tablets cause confusion. Rather, the author uses arguments from...
View ArticleJust how many are confused really?
I wish the linked article actually contained some kind of data to support its assertion. I am sure some people are confused about RTs inclusion of Office, whereas the Pro does not (except possibly for...
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I wish the linked article actually contained some kind of data to support its assertion. I am sure some people are confused about RTs inclusion of Office, whereas the Pro does not (except possibly for...
View ArticleBy: chithanh
I don’t see any anecdotes in the article which are cited in support of the idea that different editions of Office on different size tablets cause confusion. Rather, the author uses arguments from...
View ArticleBy: WorknMan
When it comes to a race to the bottom in the 7-8″ tablet space, I think Android has that exact problem. When the Nexus 7 came out, it was a good tablet for the price, but it wasn’t exactly high-end....
View ArticleBy: jockm
I should have made my point better. I was not saying they gave anecdotes, I was saying I could give my anecdotes to support a point, and other people could pile on and provide theirs, but in the end...
View ArticleBy: wocowboy
The article barely touched upon what I think will be the biggest downside to using Office on 7 and 8-inch screens, and that is the utter unusability of the Office interface on a screen that size. There...
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