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Comment on If Microsoft Office comes to the iPad, it will be the best of times and the worst of times. by lesposen

lesposen — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:14:17 +0000

Ah, in the camp of “the end user not the tool” contributes the most variance!

Comment on If Microsoft Office comes to the iPad, it will be the best of times and the worst of times. by Jason Goldman

Jason Goldman — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:46:30 +0000

“why do 95% of the Powerpoints I witness bore me and most of their audiences silly, breach so many of the guidelines research-based multimedia learning informs us of, and even have end-users complaining when tasked to draw up a new presentation, something I don’t hear of with Keynote users?”

I figure that those things are simply correlated, and being a keynote user or a skilled presenter are both independent causal outcomes of a third variable.

Comment on If Microsoft Office comes to the iPad, it will be the best of times and the worst of times. by lesposen

lesposen — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:35:26 +0000

Ta, Bill – corrected and at least another half dozen typos and one or two incomprehensible sentences.

Comment on If Microsoft Office comes to the iPad, it will be the best of times and the worst of times. by Arnold Ziffel

Arnold Ziffel — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:47:47 +0000

So while the opportunity exists for Microsoft to add more millions to its coffers on sales of Office for the iPad, it may come at some cost. Some may ask if a Windows 7 tablet is needed if Office can be found on the iPad, and perhaps go without. Farewell potential SAKES.

Hey, Les, there’s a typo – see above in all caps.

Comment on If the expression “Give me the child aged seven….” applies to the iPad and Keynote, I’d start to worry if I ran the Microsoft Office marketing department: Lessons from a Las Vegas school by If Microsoft Office comes to the iPad, it will be the best of times and the worst of times. | Les Posen's Presentation Magic

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:22:05 +0000

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Comment on With the hype over the next iPad growing, there’s going to be a lot of disappointed pundits, Wall Street Analysts and fantasists when they don’t get what they want when they want it. by Bill

Bill — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:06:42 +0000

Great article. I have an iPad and skipped 2 but will go with 3. I went grime iPhone 3G to 4s that was nice. My son has 4 and is skipping 4s ad waiting on 5. If you look at a two year cycle you get a bump. I do not think its reasonable to expect majoepr jumps every year as product matures

Comment on With the hype over the next iPad growing, there’s going to be a lot of disappointed pundits, Wall Street Analysts and fantasists when they don’t get what they want when they want it. by no

no — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:18:17 +0000

Most likely IWork will be updated with Mountain Lion
just because of Retina Displays. Also probably Apple is only
going to support Mountain Lion
just because it will be free upgrade from Lion because
Apple deferred revenue off of $22 last summer on every mac sold.
It is clear that Apple does not want to support Snow Leopard.

Comment on If the expression “Give me the child aged seven….” applies to the iPad and Keynote, I’d start to worry if I ran the Microsoft Office marketing department: Lessons from a Las Vegas school by Paul

Paul — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:05:02 +0000

Absolutely true. I just worked on a two slide project with my 12 year old niece that her teacher INSISTS be done in PowerPoint. I showed her how to quickly put together the slides in landscape in Pages, save them as PDFs, and plop them into PowerPoint. She couldn’t believe 1) how fast Pages was in comparison to PowerPoint, and 2) how much easier it was to grab a picture, mask it, resize it, and position it in comparison to PP. Now she wants me to download Keynote to her mom’s iMac.

Comment on If the expression “Give me the child aged seven….” applies to the iPad and Keynote, I’d start to worry if I ran the Microsoft Office marketing department: Lessons from a Las Vegas school by Mark Rushton

Mark Rushton — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:36:32 +0000

With news of Office for the iPad to be released shortly (http://9to5mac.com/2012/02/21/microsoft-office-for-ipad-spotted-soon-to-hit-app-store/#more-140163) is it just wishful thinking on my part that Apple has been sitting on the iWork updates to coincide and steal some thunder?

Seriously. I’m beyond withdrawal symptoms here….

Comment on If the expression “Give me the child aged seven….” applies to the iPad and Keynote, I’d start to worry if I ran the Microsoft Office marketing department: Lessons from a Las Vegas school by Shellie Rigsby

Shellie Rigsby — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:53:19 +0000

Les, your finger is on the pulse- as always. Thank you for the ongoing insights. Quite exciting isn’t it?