Thursday, May 15

Microsoft Office for iPad

This March, Microsoft released its Office for iPad suite which includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  The suite has become increasingly popular on the iPad and has hit 27 million downloads this week. I have not used Microsoft Office on an iPad yet and was concerned about the practicality of it, but the pictures online show an easy-to-use interface with similar capability as a personal computer's Microsoft Office.  The suite is free but its full capabilities require a purchased subscription. Viewing documents is free but to edit, you need to be subscribed to Office 365.

This type of transition from personal computer to tablet/device for Office will be interesting to see in the future. And if anyone is interested in Office on our iPads, we might be able to share some of this information.

Here is the article about its rising popularity.  Are there any issues that would keep a patron from accessing these applications on our iPads? Would this only apply to the Airs because of an iOS7 requirement?

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