Touch Office for iPad/Android — but not Windows?

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	TOP STORY Touch Office for iPad/Android — but not Windows?
	By Woody Leonhard Microsoft’s recent improvements to Office for iPad and iPhone, plus the launch of a beta Office on Android, has many Windows wonks wondering, “What the … happened to us?” A touch version of Office is scheduled for release around the time when we’ll see a production Windows 10, but recent events strongly suggest that Microsoft no longer considers Windows the “first” platform.

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Woody or Kathleen,

I just read your article on Touch Office. It had many, many paragraphs on the iPad verson and only a brief mention of 3 sentences about the Android version, which basically said nothing. Woody, it’s great that you love your iPad, but that is far from a universal product. I had previously thought that this was a “windows” blog, but recently I’ve begun to wonder if this is an Apple blog. If you talk about Apple products, is it possible to balance that with content from non-Apple fans, and include not only Android but also Blackberry? I’ve been a member/reader since the mid-1990s (in different iterations), but WindowsSecrets recently seems to be getting less and less relevant to me.

JerryCi

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“Windows is a slow-moving train that’s getting passed by mobile devices based on iOS and Android. Office simply can’t follow the same time track as Windows and stay competitive” Not sure if I completely agree.. Based on what I’m seeing at big retailers like Office Depot, Walmart, Best Buy and others there are a plethora of Tablets, Net-books and even a few more phones that are running windows 8.1. In fact when I opened the sales fliers in my morning newspaper on Black Friday, probably 75% of the high tech devices in the fliers were using Windows.

Love your articles Woody. Keep them coming.

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