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Do you have the desire to run PowerPoint on your Android smartphone? Good news:
Five weeks ago, we announced the Office for Android phone preview. We are so grateful to our preview users, and with their help we were able to test the apps on over 1,900 different Android phone models in 83 countries. During the preview, we heard from thousands of these users, and over the last few weeks we were able to incorporate a lot of their feedback into the apps we're launching today. For example, we made it easier to connect to other popular third-party storage offerings like Google Drive and Box, as well as many usability adjustments to make it easier to navigate commands within the apps.
You can download the Word for Android, Excel for Android and PowerPoint for Android apps from the Google Play store beginning today. We hope you enjoy using them as much as we enjoyed making them.
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Original Submission
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday June 26 2015, @02:17PM
"Actual features and useability"? Office has been completely unusable since they introduced that damn ribbon interface.
Unfortunately, often you're forced to use Word because others demand it. I've been using Open Office but when I decided to start submitting short stories to magazines, I discovered they all want Word formats. Oo allegedly reads and writes those formats, but I can't open a Word document in Oo and I can't save it as a Word document and have Word read it. So Installed the probably crippled version that came with the notebook, getting the text in by copy/paste.
Also unfortunately, Oo's spreadsheet is garbage. I'm glad I don't need spreadsheets.
... instead devoted at least a smidgen of time to high-performance open-source feature-rich applications
The only Linux app I've seen that's lacking is Oo's spreadsheet. The only two things wrong with GIMP is its retarded menu structure and lack of a decent color picker; I use it to produce my books' covers. No way am I paying a thousand bucks for a copy of Photoshop (note that all of MS's photo editors are garbage).
Powerpoint? That productivity draining monstrosity should never have been on the market. I'm glad I'm retired so I don't have to sit through any more boring Powerpoint presentations that did nothing but waste time.
Note that a lot of companies are free of Microsoft, the Ernie Ball Corporation (they make the world's best guitar strings) being one. After the BSA dragged their name through the mud over some accounting errors, its CEO said he wanted all Microsoft out of the factory "and I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses, I will not do business with a vendor who treats me badly."
Pray tell, what can't a Linux desktop do that Windows can besides run MS software?
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