Why I will not use MS Office for iPad and iPhone, in spite of his "klovost"

Early yesterday morning on American average time and late in the evening we, Microsoft launched the open access office trio of Word, Excel and Powerpoint on iOS platfomu. Those. Now, supposedly, free office will be on the iPad, and iPhone for free. Office people should rejoice, together with personal users, because they can write reports in the "Word" to do spreadsheets with sales boss in "Eksele" and tell their brilliant ideas can now be enabled "Paverpoynta". Festive time added tweets Tim Cook and Satya Nadella, who are delighted happening (in fact, everyone is glad for her):

Welcome to the #iPad and @AppStore! @satyanadella and Office for iPad

- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) March 27, 2014

Thanks @tim_cook, Excited to bring the magic of @Office to iPad customers # cloud4mobile

- Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) March 27, 2014

And we decided to see what we really sell free Microsoft ...

Office applications actually downloaded to your tablet for free. All you need - to pump on your device three programs a total size of almost 800 MB! Free, remember? In the free version you get only one - office document viewer from Microsoft. Yes, you will see the changes in the document formatting will be normal. But it has long been able to do almost all the alternative office software. The current Google Drive app is able to show not only office documents, but also display related editors and comments in the margins. And with the mapping of the rest at Google is fine!

Take the free iWork package from Apple (Pages instead of Word, Numbers instead of Excel, Keynote instead of Powerpoint). All of these programs are able to display the text, spreadsheets, and presentations created in Microsoft programs. Worse than other business presentations, but you often see text and tables, acknowledge. And comments with edits can be seen here, too!

Or take the app Documents from Odessa developers. He scans the documents is sometimes better to new applications from Microsoft. See for yourself and see.

Perhaps you think that in the office for iOS will work some more complex elements of the documents? Macros, for example? It can and should be, but I they did not work at all. So, we can only one advantage - editing.

Microsoft has turned out a good product quality. But here it is created either to another universe, or at another time. For example, for the past.

So Microsoft believes that Office spherical horse in a vacuum will be sitting for their tablet and a snap-on keyboard scribbling reports in Word or reduce the balance to Excel, that put this super idea to your new tablet Surface. How do you see around you, the idea is worthless, because no one with them next to you does not sit and edit Office documents. Russian retailers take off "syurfeysy" does for beztsenok, but more of them around us for some reason does not get. And now with this super idea Microsoft has come to iOS. Now someone has to edit documents, they say, on the iPad tablet, on which the keyboard is not present. You can, of course, connect eplovskuyu blyutuznuyu keyboard, but why? Why, if there is Air laptops that weigh less than the Microsoft's tablet ?!

But you believe in a steep super-spherical idea of ​​Microsoft and decided to scribble reports and reduce the balances on your iPad. It is possible here :) The only problem is that this feature will cost you $ 99.99 a year, or 20 rubles per day, counting only working days. If you buy a advanced account, you get this:

• access to Office 365 system;
• activation of Microsoft office suite for 5 Zhelezyaka regardless of platform;
• mobile use of documents (here it is not clear what is meant by marketers Redmond);
• 20 GB SkyDrive cloud, now called reason DriveOne (just remember - like Ubuntu One);
• some minutes in a Skype, available as a marketing promo says, somewhere, where available;)

Total, you, dear readers, is almost as corporate chuvachki, but pay for it yourself, not your employer. And then the question arises - why do we need to pay 100 dollars, if Google Drive and iWork are available on the computers in the cloud and on mobile platforms free of charge? A long time ago. And yes, we're used to Google Docs and iWork!

Well, a happy song of Microsoft employees about their ecosystem. It has been almost 10 years, but the old way, though Ballmer trail forgive ...

We really do not understand why now need such an office suite with functionality and with a price tag. Can you, dear readers, it is understandable why? Tell us in the comments.