Microsoft Office for iPad is the suite Office by Microsoft dedicated to iOS, it was launched last month in App Store for tablet owners iPad. Versions for iPad of applications Word, Excel si Power point were developed by a team of employees Microsoft, in the image above being presented the tablets used by them to test the software released in the name Microsoft in App Store. Separately from this image, they talked to users on a social network about the development process behind the application, providing information unknown to many of us.
The code for Office for iPad and Office for Mac is shared, as the development platforms for both are very similar. 🙂 The iPad work required us to create an all-new UI and to redesign the interface between the UI and the internal logic. That work actually helps us with de-Carbonizing Office for the Mac, instead of delaying or hindering it. We're able to create new Cocoa UI on the Mac and tie it into the new logic interface now. The decision to ship Office for iPad was made before Satya became CEO. Steve Ballmer approved the plan to ship Office for iPad.
According to the developers from Microsoft, the Office suites for iOS and OS X share the same code, the platform used for development being similar, although in the case of the applications for iPad it was necessary to change the design compared to the applications used for Mac. Moreover, although many have credited Nadella Satya for launching the Microsoft Office suite for the iPad, Microsoft employees claim that the applications were approved by Steve Ballmer a long time ago.
Apart from all this, you will find many interesting details in the employees' answers, including a theory according to which many of them consider themselves traitors to the company.
