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Microsoft’s Office for iPad team took this opportunity to show off their stash of Apple products for making software for OS X and iOS as well. And yes, Apple did approve the apps on the first try. We have a very normal team Apple Developer account.

A wise man once said, “Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.” That rings true for how we thought about it.Īnd Microsoft says its apps were approved on the first submission: Since we were designing Office for iPad from a “blank slate” so to speak, we wanted to take the time to deliver the highest possible quality Office experience that is fully optimized for the iPad. Steve Ballmer approved the plan to ship Office for iPad.Īnother team member quoted Steve Jobs when addressing what exactly took so long. The decision to ship Office for iPad was made before Satya became CEO. When asked if recent headlines portraying Microsoft’s direction should be attributed to now retired CEO Steve Ballmer and the company’s current CEO Satya Nadella, the iPad team attributed the company’s new Office apps to Ballmer’s approval. We’re able to create new Cocoa UI on the Mac and tie it into the new logic interface now. That work actually helps us with de-Carbonizing Office for the Mac, instead of delaying or hindering it. :) The iPad work required us to create an all-new UI and to redesign the interface between UI and the internal logic.

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The code for Office for iPad and Office for Mac is shared, as the development platforms for both are very similar.

With that in mind, one clever Reddit user asked if Office for iPad had delayed Office for Mac thus far as well as its transition from using Carbon to Cocoa in development.

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When someone asked if the Office for iPad team could ask the Mac team when the update is coming out, someone from the team replied back saying “actually, we are also the Office for Mac team.” Something that I found interesting but may be assumed is that Microsoft’s Office for iPad team is also their Office for Mac team, which has been reported to be due for an update later this year. By measure of upvotes, the most popular question as of the time of this writing asked when Office for iPad would gain the ability to print, something Apple’s iWork suite and many of apps already offer, to which the team replied “in due course” while noting the high demand of the feature.īut the team didn’t stop there Microsoft’s Office for iPad team also shared photos of their lab (as seen in the above photo), talked about the development process for bringing Office to the iPad, and even addressed the notion that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer held Office back from the iPad… As Microsoft continues its Office for iPad marketing campaign, the team that developed the productivity software has taken to Reddit for an AMA, or Ask Me Anything, to answer questions and discuss the development process behind Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPad.