Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014

Re:Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014 by greedo on Thursday February 07, 2013 @09:50AM (#5182295)

Okay, I just wandered the halls of my company, a privately held insurance/financial services company.

Most of us drones are issued standard Windows desktops or notebooks. But the story is far different in the VP suites. Many of them have iPads with keyboards. They use them, love them for meetings etc.

This has driven our company to find more and more ways to support them, since when a VP says "Support my device" things often happen.

Eventually this will trickle down to us unwashed masses, and we'll be able to use iOS and Android without having to suffer with Citrix Receiver.

Anectdata is fun...

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Re:Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014 by MatthewPhillips on Thursday February 07, 2013 @11:42AM (#5183041)

It will, but it will take a long time, I think that's what the grandparent is saying. The VP doesn't care what the people 2 floors down in their cubes are using, so they'll continue to use the safe, cheap choice until Windows is no longer the safe cheap choice for office work.

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Re:Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014 by greedo on Thursday February 07, 2013 @07:05PM (#5185359)

Actually, when the VP mandates that any web app he purchases support iOS and Android, it trickles down pretty quickly.

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Re:Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014 by gtirloni on Friday February 08, 2013 @04:51PM (#5190336)

Angry Birds is already on iOS and Android.

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