Microsoft Office for iPad announcement, live from San Francisco

Microsoft Office for iPad announcement, live from San Francisco

<p>(Thanks for joining us and bearing with our liveblog hiccups! Meanwhile, the rest of our team is over at Moscone Center following along with the Macworld/iWorld keynote session!)</p>

<p>(So, Office looks pretty good -- but has the ecosystem moved on past Office for iPad users? We'll see... --MR)</p>

<p>(Nadella is wrapping up.)</p>

<p>We want our applications to run cross-platform great. We're not holding anything back. What motivates us is the reality of our customers. (not fear/guarding turf, is the implication. --MR)</p>

<p>You'll hear more about the innovations/intersection between mobile and cloud. How does Windows integrate here? More soon.</p>

<p>Enterprise Mobility Suite manages complexity of a heterogenous environment "Enables IT to be heroes because they enable their users."</p>

<p>For Office365, building a great user experience. Rich developer surface area, so they can go after a very wide opportunity.</p>

<p>10:30 Nadella back onstage. "Great focus and great care to make sure Office on every device shines through."</p>

<p>10:28: Moving on to developer audience. Showing DocuSign on iPhone integrated with Azure AD and Office365.</p>

<p>10:24 Now showing the Windows Azure AD application integrations, with SSO and two-factor auth. (You can tell by the volume of typing in the room that this does not have the crowd appeal of the iPad info. --MR)</p>

<p><img data-credit="Microsoft" data-mep="192386" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/8495c64abbf45b1a9526223d2ce1272f/Screenshot 2014-03-27 10.27.19.png" alt="" /></p>

<p>10:22 Now showing the enterprise management portal for mobile devices. Can manage your connected devices from a browser. (Similar to MDM offerings from JAMF, AirWatch, etc.)</p>

<p>FREEMIUM MODEL for read-only access; with Office 365 subscription, you get full edit.</p>

<p>(These apps have a menu bar. Really quite intriguing. --MR)</p>

<p>PowerPoint: Lots of expectation of people presenting on the iPad -- transitions and effects preserved. Annotations and laser-pointer options too.</p>

<p>Unique to Office on the iPad are chart suggestions -- using my data, with a preview of what it's going to look like. "This is not the ported Windows or Mac app, or the iPhone app."</p>

<p><img data-credit="MS" data-mep="192358" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/98a8f368bdd53d71c38c8461463e34d5/Screenshot 2014-03-27 10.18.40.png" alt="" /></p>

<p>10:18 Excel has a custom numeric keyboard.</p>

<p>10:16 am: Simultaneous multiple users editing a doc in OneDrive.</p>

<p><img data-credit="MS" data-mep="192359" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/3c59ef6bc84214022de484be4d12a2f9/Screenshot 2014-03-27 10.17.22.png" alt="" /></p>

<p>Can also be confident that everything is going to look like we want it, and fidelity across devices.</p>

<p>Showing Word working with photos in native iPad mode.</p>

<p>11 am PT today Word, Excel and Powerpoint go live in the App Store for users.</p>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395940333"><span class="live_stamp">10:12AM</span> Demo time with Julia White.</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395940320"><span class="live_stamp">10:12AM</span> First step in creating a cloud for everyone on every device</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395940269"><span class="live_stamp">10:11AM</span> Sorry for the technical difficulties folks. Now talking about BYOD.</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395940199"><span class="live_stamp">10:10AM</span> Developers also looking for a canvas to innovate, build on the scenarios that Microsoft is working on -- want a big surface area to work upon.</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395940139"><span class="live_stamp">10:09AM</span> Nadella: People have a set of activities that we do.</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395940072"><span class="live_stamp">10:07AM</span> (There are two iOS devices on the table here)</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395940062"><span class="live_stamp">10:07AM</span> Magical coming together of cloud and mobile -- that intersection is what we want to talk about today.</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395940009"><span class="live_stamp">10:06AM</span> Focusing on a mobile first / cloud first world</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939958"><span class="live_stamp">10:05AM</span> Use all the insight gained by reasoning over this data.</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939920"><span class="live_stamp">10:05AM</span> Computing will be ubiquitous; interactions will be digitized.</div>

<div class="live_update"><img border="1" class="live_image" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2014/03/screenshot-2014-03-27-10.04.41.png" vspace="4" //></div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939873"><span class="live_stamp">10:04AM</span> Focused on ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence.</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939852"><span class="live_stamp">10:04AM</span> Satya Nadella: Our team is really ready for innovation... one aspect of it to talk about today. What can we as a company do to serve our customers better.</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939794"><span class="live_stamp">10:03AM</span> "Despite having spent 22 years at MS, seeing it anew"</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939766"><span class="live_stamp">10:02AM</span> "Day 52 for me -- but who's counting"</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939752"><span class="live_stamp">10:02AM</span> CEO is here</div>

<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939730"><span class="live_stamp">10:02AM</span> 9:59AM Briefing about to kick off... introductions/preamble

9:58AM sorry for the massive image.

9:58AM Themed M&Ms and pillows seem to indicate an Office theme... Smile

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<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939618"><span class="live_stamp">10:00AM</span> 9:59AM Briefing about to kick off... introductions/preamble

9:58AM Themed M&Ms and pillows seem to indicate an Office theme... Smile

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<div class="live_update" timestamp="1395939457"><span class="live_stamp">9:57AM</span> Good morning/afternoon everyone! Mike Rose here, reporting live from Microsoft's event in San Francisco.</div>

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<p>We're going to be live at Microsoft's announcement at One Kearny in San Francisco! Join us at 10 am PT/1 pm ET for updates and insights from the event.</p>

<p>You can read more about the anticipated topic (Office for iPad!) in our preview post here. Microsoft is also webcasting the session here.</p>

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