In his first public appearance after the appointment of the new head of Microsoft, Satya Nadella introduced the next generation Office. A popular office suite consisting of applications such as Office and Excel has been optimized for use with touchscreen devices.
Microsoft started targeting office applications on touch devices with Office 2013. The iPad version was a logical continuation of the course chosen by the company. The appearance of Office has not undergone major changes, but many functions have been streamlined for convenience.
The biggest difference was that Microsoft did not try to show off all the available working tools, instead of which it highlighted the most important of them, which made it possible to increase the size of the icons by using the free space.
Microsoft Word, for example, resembles Word 2013, but with a simpler and more convenient interface for working with touchscreens. Manipulations of text and images with the help of a finger are carried out as easily as in most other text editors for the iPad, writes the site CNN.
Microsoft Excel can recognize the type of data the user is working with and automatically propose suitable formatting options in order to save time that could be spent searching for the desired schedule.
Powerpoint, perhaps, was the simplest and most tablet-oriented product out of the entire office suite for iPad. You can create presentations in a few taps and gestures.
Also worth noting is the closer integration of Office with Microsoft OneDrive. All documents are automatically copied and synchronized with Microsoft cloud storage through a simple interface.
The choice of iOS, rather than Windows or Android, as the first operating system for a tablet-optimized version of Office speaks of the great importance of the iPad in the tablet market. But can Office, which has been absent on the iPad for many years, compete with dozens of other business applications that are available today in the Apple app store? The answer to this question will show time.
Meanwhile, Word, Excel and PowerPoint for iPad have already appeared in the App Store.
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