June 14, 2013

Microsoft Office on iOS – Don’t get too excited

Normally this would be big news. I’m sure a lot of people have been waiting for MS Office to make it’s way onto iOS. Well, today is that day. Microsoft is offering Word, Excel and Powerpoint. There’s only two MAJOR problems. 1. It only works on the iPhone. 2. It costs $99.99 and you need to have an Office 365 Subscription. In one fell swoop, Microsoft offers something is both quite exciting, but at the same time is a steaming pile of poo. Instead of making a competitor to Pages, which may be a run away success on the iPad, and charging $9.99, they lose their damn minds and make their completely untested version 1.0 product available for $100. And basically, if you use any stand alone version of Office, this iOS version is useless. Smooth Microsoft. Smooth. And of course it only supports SkyDrive, not Dropbox which is what millions of people use for iOS. This seems like a […]

December 2, 2012

Office 2013 Looks Like Ass

I just got my first look of Microsoft Office 2013 and it looks hideous! All the color, all the depth, all the contours and shapes are completely gone. After spending years "sculpting" icons, the apps look like they’re running through a monochrome dumb terminal. I’m not a fan of the Ribbon Bar to begin with, but this makes a bad design look even worse. I wish I had a screenshot, but it was on another machine. I’m sure there are plenty out there and it’s just as bad in person as it is in pictures. Truly, this is an extremely unattractive interface. We are definitely regressing.

November 22, 2010

Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad – Pride Drop to $11.99

The pricing for Quickoffice has been pretty unpredictable since its initial release in June. At one time it was $9.99, then $11.99, then $16, then up to $24, then back down to $19 and now back down to $11.99. If you’re looking for an Office style app then I would act now before the price goes back up. I grabbed Quickoffice right at the end of September and think it’s actually a better choice than Pages. If you get it at this price you get a word processor and spreadsheet tool for about the same cost as the single Apple app. The file manager is far superior with Quickoffice and navigating documents is much easier to understand. The integration with Dropbox is also much better and cleaner. Now before people get all crazy, keep in mind that heavily formatted documents aren’t going to show up correctly in either app. The iPad doesn’t support all those fonts and the apps can’t […]

September 27, 2010

Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite drops to $9.99

Well now, this does make things complicated again. Just the other day I wrote about Office apps for the iPad and while Quickconnect was chosen by a lot of people as their favorite Office suite, the $16.99 price tag took it off my list. Mere days later, the price has dropped back down to $9.99 for a limited time. I was quite set to buy Pages and go with the Apple choice, however, with this price drop I will have to debate that choice some more. Pages gives me word processing. Quickoffice offers word processing, spreadsheets and PowerPoint functionality is expected in the not too distant future. Plus, Quickoffce seems to have better file management and better compatibility with cloud services like Google Docs and Dropbox. So I thought I had things worked out, but with this new price drop I may have to reconsider. Any Quickoffice or Pages fans want to offer their opinion on which way I should […]

July 21, 2010

Office 2010 isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?

Who upgraded to Office 2010? Personally, I haven’t. I’m on 2007 and quite frankly it serves my needs just fine. I downloaded the beta of 2010 and to be honest I thought the UI was hideous! Most of the time I’m not even a fan of the blue Office ribbon, but this latest version just looks horrible! But as far as features go it just doesn’t have anything I need. I mean seriously, what more can you possibly make Office do? I’ve stated before, Word hit feature saturation in 2003, so did Excel. At this point it’s just being dressed up and shortcuts are being added. The shortcuts are nice but I’m not sure they warrant the massive price tag of the update. And it looks like Office 2010 might be the first version suffering from market saturation. It seems adoption is a little sluggish for this new version. Again, what is the average user missing? 2010 offers integration with […]

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