{"id":9831,"date":"2013-04-12T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T18:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2013-04-12T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T18:19:43","slug":"big-winner-with-office-for-ipad-and-android-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9831","title":{"rendered":"Big winner with Office for iPad and Android delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My colleague <a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/office-for-ios-android-on-deck-for-2014-will-the-users-wait-7000013774\/\">Zack Whittaker believes Google Docs<\/a> will take some of these customers away, but that&#8217;s not the biggest threat to Microsoft. The longer Microsoft neglects to release the iOS and Android versions of Office, a greater number of customers owning iPads and other tablets will discover competing Office-compatible apps for those platforms. Having used many of these suites for years, it is clear they are robust enough to fill the need for Office for many owners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/big-winner-with-office-for-ipad-and-android-delay-google-7000013841\/\">Big winner with Office for iPad and Android delay: Google | ZDNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After having used a tablet I can&#8217;t see how one could do any real work on one.\u00a0 Tablets are good consumption devices &#8212; reading (and perhaps commenting on) documents produced on workstations with real QWERTY keyboards that fit one&#8217;s fingers and hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Zack Whittaker believes Google Docs will take some of these customers away, but that&#8217;s not the biggest threat to Microsoft. The longer Microsoft neglects to release the iOS and Android versions of Office, a greater number of customers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9831\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48,50,616,115],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-android","tag-microsoft","tag-openoffice","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}