Not only the iPad Pro includes support for digital pen, but Microsoft is bringing its inking technology to the Office apps for iPad. Steve Jobs was always against inking, but Bill Gates might have won this battle. I guess it depends on your use case.PowerPoint now has a “Presenter View” that will enable you to project the presentation on a second screen, while you’re working on your screen on PowerPoint and using OneNote on the second half of the screen with the notes you need to tackle your presentation. Not really sure what you consider an MS tax. Family 365 subcription with all that storage just makes it a no brainer. Like me, a lot of people use Office because it's low friction that works regardless of the hardware I'm using. The Mac apps are okay, but again, no one really cares. It come bundled with a ton of computers, it works in every ecosystem (that matters), and you don't really have to think about it. Now, if you have to work with complex Word layouts or Excel tables with macro programming, it’s a different story, but otherwise there is no reason to pay the Microsoft tax.īy and large, no one really cares about office productivity software. The apps bundled with the Mac for free (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) are highly capable programs that can read and write Microsoft’s file format and deliver all the features most people need.įor feature parity and higher compatibility you can get the free LibreOffice. Public service announcement: most people don’t need Office.

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