Yes, it sure would be cool. Of course, it would also be cool if Bill Gates chose to adopt me.
And it would be awesome if I were the King of France. I could go around saying, "le roi, c'est moi."
Anyway, the chances for Office on the iPad look more or less nil.
Nomura Research analyst Rick Sherlund addressed this point in a research note this morning. As he notes, while the Office team at Microsoft might be inclined to offer software for the iPad, the company is getting ready to launch Windows 8, which in particular will be targeted at the tablet market. One obvious potential differentiator for Windows tablets? The ability to run Office.
"Don’t hold your breath for Office on the iPad," Sherlund writes. "If there were a tug of war of conflicting interest with the Office team on one end of the rope and Steve Sinofsky and Steve Ballmer on the other (chanting Windows, Windows, Windows), we would expect there would be no Office on iPad anytime soon."
