And unlike the RT, the Pro doesn't come out of the box with Microsoft Office.
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Nearly everyone in the world has taken a spin with Microsoft Office, Google Search or an Apple product.
People could choose to use the new stuff or stay with Microsoft Office.
At the same time, templates and bookmarks within our HR system integrate with Microsoft Office tools, like Outlook, to streamline communications with applicants.
This 4G LTE capable tablet offers enhanced productivity tools for work or home and comes with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 RT Preview Edition.
Bundled with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 Preview edition.
We also integrated with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org.
Make iCloud work seamlessly and easily so we store all of our important stuff (media, photos, videos) in iCloud and make switching costs very high. (iCloud now has 250M users.) Keep adding features to iMessage and promote iWorks to work with Microsoft Office so no one has a reason to switch to a Microsoft Surface.
Eikon links to Excel with one click and will soon be fully integrated with the Microsoft Office suite so users can pull data and charts from the system into Word or PowerPoint.
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Unless Apple innovates at a faster clip, or is able to negotiate with Microsoft for Office support on iPad, Apple is in serious danger of losing its lead in tablets in the corporate world.
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Yet with release after release, vendors add features that no one uses or cares about -- a problem that reached a nadir with the Microsoft Office Assistant, which was so universally reviled that Microsoft actually sent out press releases announcing Clippy's death when it was removed.
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But for that price, users get a machine with the power to grind through Microsoft Office with ease.
Seattle-based Blue Rooster has been developing collaboration solutions for the enterprise for several years, building applications that offer Facebook-like internal networks on top of Microsoft products which these companies are already familiar with, including Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Microsoft Azure.
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In addition to retail sales to individual consumers, Google is trying to sell Chromebooks to the millions of student, corporate and government customers that use Google Apps, the company's suite of Web software that competes with Microsoft's Office.
Microsoft will be integrating Skype with all its offerings, including Microsoft Office, Windows, Xbox and Windows Phone 7.
Pixel certainly suffers from the former, but since it essentially runs one app -- the Chrome browser -- there hasn't been the need for developers to either create a Windows 8-style version of their apps or to try to make their traditional desktop apps more touch-friendly as Microsoft has with Office.
Susan Grabau, Sun's StarOffice product line manager, said that these high-profile partnerships should extend the company's reach so it can better compete with bitter rival Microsoft, whose Office product is the most widely used desktop applications suite.
The company has integrated the product with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, data from Outlook and Exchange, GPS and others.
On the other hand, Microsoft's approach with Office begs a question.
Personnel using Windows Phone 7 devices are able to take advantage of Office Mobile to work with Office documents right out of the box, but an official Microsoft Office application is notably missing for other widely adopted platforms such as the iPad.
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Whereas Apple and Android are more for quality-of-life and casual users, the hardcore power users will migrate towards Microsoft just as they have with the Office and other business products.
It could be that investors are bored with PCs, PDAs and Office talk from Microsoft.
As for office management software, Microsoft Office Small Business--with its suite of tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook--is still the standard.
And then Microsoft entered the market with Windows and its original Office product suite.
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Google has shown no interest in leasing out its vast infrastructure, but it is challenging Microsoft with a suite of online applications akin to Office.
Asus will offer specialized apps for working on Microsoft Office documents and multitasking, along with a now rather slender 5GB of cloud storage, which will at least be handy for syncing documents across devices.
At the risk of seeming Google-centric, I have to point out that it's even possible to manage basic documents and spreadsheets online -- once proprietary to bloated Microsoft Office products -- for free with Google Docs.
Despite the setback, officials from the Department of Commerce and the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, along with security experts from Microsoft, Cisco and other companies, said Thursday that they are making progress on a plan for cooperation and collaboration in the effort to protect the nation's digital infrastructure.
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