{"id":2701,"date":"2014-03-27T13:52:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oneminutetodolist.com\/blog\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2014-05-19T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:52:57","slug":"office-for-ipad-released-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/office-for-ipad-released-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Office for iPad Released Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>March 27, 2014<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced today the release of Office for iPad. These are not iPad versions of the lightweight dumbed-down apps that were released for the iPhone last year. Rather, they are (nearly) full-functioning versions of the desktop copies of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, optimized for the iPad touch environment. There is also an update to the OneNote app that is already out for the iPad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/michaellinenberger.com\/images\/office-for-ipad.png\" width=\"572\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t tested these yet (other than OneNote earlier), but all reviews so far indicate these are very powerful programs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->A couple points about this release:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The apps are free, but you\u2019ll need a paid Office 365 subscription to do any serious work with them.<\/li>\n<li>They require iOS7 on your iPad.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft did not release an app called \u201cOffice.\u201d Rather they released individual apps for Word Excel and PowerPoint, (and updated their existing OneNote app). You download them individually.<\/li>\n<li>Notice there is no Outlook in this collection; rather users could use the previous OWA app that Microsoft released for the iPad last year. Or continue to use the Mail app on iPad.<\/li>\n<li>While these are full-featured, some key features are missing. Example: printing. See review links below for full discussion.<\/li>\n<li>These programs go far beyond any corresponding touch\/metro applications currently on Windows 8 tablets, which is rather ironic. Equivalent full-featured touch versions of Office are expected to be released for the Windows 8 tablet metro environment later this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Impact on 1MTD and MYN<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s really no impact for <a href=\"http:\/\/michaellinenberger.com\/1MTDvsMYN.html\">1MTD and MYN system<\/a> users because 1MTD and MYN rely on e-mail and task management features\u2014and there are no new e-mail or task management modules here. OWA certainly can be used in conjunction with this new suite for things like single-folder Exchange e-mail filing and category-based filing (as before). You\u2019ll still want to use software like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneminutetodolist.com\/blog\/tasktask-4-for-the-iphone-and-ipad-using-with-1mtd-and-myn\/\">TaskTask<\/a> to manager Exchange-based tasks. Or use <a href=\"http:\/\/michaellinenberger.com\/ToodleDo.html\">Toodledo<\/a> for tasks if you don\u2019t use Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>As I study this new iPad software, if I find things that <em>do<\/em> have impacts on 1MTD or MYN users, I\u2019ll report them here. In the meantime, below are a couple good online reviews of these new iPad apps:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsoft-office-for-ipad-sets-the-gold-standard-for-tablet-productivity-7000027797\/\">http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsoft-office-for-ipad-sets-the-gold-standard-for-tablet-productivity-7000027797\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winsupersite.com\/office\/microsoft-office-ipad-review\">http:\/\/winsupersite.com\/office\/microsoft-office-ipad-review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Linenberger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 27, 2014 Microsoft announced today the release of Office for iPad. These are not iPad versions of the lightweight dumbed-down apps that were released for the iPhone last year. Rather, they are (nearly) full-functioning versions of the desktop copies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/office-for-ipad-released-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}