News for Thursday, 24 May 2012

According to BGR, Microsoft will launch a Office Suite for iOS and Android in November 2012.It remains unclear to what extend such Tablet-version of Office will be as extended as the desktop version (features, extension, etc.), and its price still remains unknown. We can predict that it should be a rather successful application on the iPad, as it will bring a productivity tool lacking for many corporates thinking of dropping notebooks for a tablet-only environment, at least for some functions. The Office version for iOS might also boost sales of iPad as well as those of external peripherals such as docking stations, keyboard and trackpad. 

Steve Ballmer has always been a demonstrative speaker. During a conference in Seoul, Microsoft CEO, kept talking about Windows 8 as the re-birth of Windows. According to his words, this version version have the most impact in the world... Microsoft projects that next year 400 to 500 millions copies (legal and/or illegal?) of Windows 8 will have been sold. To reach such figures, he has been adding all Windows 8 version: PC, tablets, mobile phones, etc. Today, 350 million licenses of Windows 7 has been shipped.
Of course, Balmmer is known to be over-optimistic, and he seems certain of the success of Windows 8, on Pc, but also on mobile phone as a way for Microsoft to try to catch up with iOS and Android. A serous challenge for Microsoft.

We can also say that we would be please to hear Tim Cook speaking about re-birth of Mac OS X, aka "Renaissance". IT is rather true that Snow Leopard, Lion and the forthcoming Mountain Lion are evolution of a system that was fully developed with 10.5. Teh last evolution have been adding some features, and/or gadgets to make it looking like iOS, without really improving the user experience.