It seems that the world's largest software company, Microsoft has not wanted to participate late in the emergence iPad.Microsoft officials said they did not make a version of Microsoft Office programs for the iPad.
"We never said to not be. But we do not currently have plans to develop Office software for Apple iPad," Stephenson Elop said, president of Microsoft Business Division, told BusinessWeek.
But it's not impossible for Microsoft to change his mind. The reason, according to a survey, it turns out the majority of people want to buy iPad for office or working on their business tasks.
Microsoft claimed to have not provided software for MS Office because it was too early iPad. "Office for the iPad still do not have a current market share," said Woody Christian, spokesman for the unit of Microsoft, which had previously been made of version Office for the Apple Macintosh.
company headquartered in Redmond, Washington last year also plans to make versions of Office that can walk to work on your Nokia smartphone because millions of Office users already have a Nokia mobile phone.
In the near future, Microsoft is also going to launch the MS Office 2010 to businesses, namely on 12 May. While the consumer version will be released at the end of June this year.
On that occasion also, Microsoft will plan to introduce MS Word and MS Excel web-based, which can be accessed for free.
Office 2010 will get a warm welcome from consumer companies, considering the beta version of Office 2010 have been downloaded no less than six million times. The figure is two times higher than the Office 2007 beta downloads.
Perhaps this is also what makes Microsoft very confident and not too questioned the threat of Google's first to offer web-based productivity applications, namely Google Docs.
"We have not heard anything about Google's plans to challenge MS Office, because they did not," said Elop. According to Elop, Google did not provide a way to compete with Microsoft in the business software market.
