Office on iPad: Microsoft wrestling with $2.5B tradeoff

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Microsoft is forgoing as much as $2.5 billion a year in extra revenue by not yet putting a full-fledged version of its Office suite on Apple’s iPad. That’s the estimate by Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt, as reported by Fortune magazine today. There were a series of reports last year that Microsoft was working on… Read More…

3 ways digital media is turning us into 2nd graders

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We are all regressing. And I have proof from an authoritative source: the state of children’s books. The underlying reasons lie in the digital means by which we communicate, forcing increased — and often unreasonable — expectations of speed and brevity, no matter how complicated the concept. My evidence for declaring this probable cause and… Read More…

Haiku Deck partners with popular publishing platform Slideshare

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Above is a presentation made on Haiku Deck and shared on Slideshare — it also shows you how to upload your Haiku Deck presentations to Slideshare. That’s now possible going forward, as the two companies partnered today to allow users to upload slideshows made on Haiku Deck directly to Slideshare, the world’s largest community for sharing… Read More…

Support documents show Microsoft Office coming to iPad

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It looks more and more like Microsoft Office is coming to Apple’s iPad. There have been rumors and screenshots of Office potentially coming to iOS devices, but now new documents at official French and Romanian Office support sites show references to an Office app for both the iPhone and iPad. First reported by French website mac4ever,… Read More…

$100 a year for Office: Microsoft unveils subscription rates

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Microsoft has been gradually releasing information regarding Windows 8, and all of the applications therein, since the start of 2012. One of the details we’ve been missing is the  pricing for Office 365, the suite that houses popular applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (among others). Today, the Redmond-based company officially unveiled the new pricing scheme for… Read More…