Michal Ždanský Last month, Microsoft released the Office app for the iPhone. Although expectations were high, the application only offered basic editing of documents from the office suite, and it is only available for Office 365 subscribers. The new Outlook Web App, or OWA for iOS, is in a similar vein.
OWA brings most of the features of Outlook on the web to iPhone and iPad users. It supports email, calendar and contacts (unfortunately not tasks). As expected, the application includes synchronization with Microsoft Exchange with push support and allows, for example, remote deletion of data. All this is wrapped in a flat Metro environment with all its attributes including fonts. In addition, the application also includes voice search and Bing service integration.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's policy ensures that no one will download except Office enthusiasts who have paid for a $100-a-year subscription. Instead of digging its claws into a competing system, like Google does, and offering the app for free or for a one-time fee to everyone (although that's how OneNote works), it limits the user base to only those who already use Microsoft services. The application thus only makes sense for a small handful of people who want to manage their agenda, presumably synchronized via Microsoft-style Exchange.
Redmond is making it clear that Office without a tablet subscription is only available on Surface and other Windows 8 devices, as it claims in its anti-iPad ads. But Surface sales are meagre, and Windows 8 tablets from other manufacturers aren't doing too well either, and they ignore the RT version completely. Microsoft should thus abandon its fortress surrounded by walls and try to expand Office beyond the boundaries of its operating system on mobile platforms. This is how it kills otherwise promising applications and the potential of adaptation to Office products among Apple users.
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hh is not compatible with iP4
The same could be said about Apple. Try synchronizing something via iCloud with Windows or Linux. You will find the windows version of iWork. Try connecting to AFP from Windows. Try playing iTunes on Windows!!! In fact, Microsoft has learned a lot from Apple. I have nothing to blame each other for.
iWork will be in the cloud version for windows as well, i.e. icloud will be. Synchronization of bookmarks with Windows via iCloud works. I have no problems with iTunes on Windows, do you? On the contrary, for example, exchange works on iPhones directly as an example on Androids and, surprisingly, sometimes even Windows Mobile has bigger problems. That thing with iTunes is such a cliché, the current version on Windows 7 runs just fine.
even iCloud supports the same protocols as everyone else, so you can easily synchronize contacts, calendar, emails from any device.
Well, it's not for a few enthusiasts. In times of economic crisis, Microsoft is doing very well with office 365. I personally use the services as a small entrepreneur and it's a lot of money - I think a little over 3 CZK per year, exchange, full-fledged office (the box itself costs I think 000 liters) and the option to install on both PC and Mac OS (because the price includes the option to install on five computers). Thanks to the new upgrade of onenote on iPad and iPhone, I was finally able to cancel evernote (I still hope that onenote will appear in the new version of office for mac os) and I find owe excellent. Mainly thanks to the colored flags from outook both in the calendar and in emails. In short, satisfaction and free. I have reservations about two things - the inability to set the number of synchronized e-mails offline and the calendar on the iPhone in landscape mode is not much and I miss the view there - the agenda.