By next year, Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 will celebrate its fourth anniversary — an eternity in software years, but it apparently will take that long for a new 2015 edition to arrive, and we've got a few details on what to expect in our Wednesday Morning Report, which also includes an Apple apology for iOS 8.0.1 and the continued adoption of iOS 8 in general. Click and consume!
Apple VP Greg Joswiak Blames iOS 8.0.1 Snafu on Distribution
The iOS 8.0.1 update is likely to become legendary for being one of the few Apple software updates to temporarily brick devices — especially when the problem only affected those with shiny new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models. Re/code reported Tuesday that the update itself may not have been to blame, however.
"It wasn't the software itself, it was the way it was distributed," explained Greg Joswiak, the Apple VP in charge of iPhone marketing. "We're very sorry."
Joswiak spoke yesterday at the Code/Mobile conference, where he also told hosts Walt Mossberg and Ina Fried that Apple's goal wasn't to built the cheapest products in the world, but rather the "best products with the best experience."
"Maybe it is naïve, but we [believe] that if we make a better product and a better experience, that there will always be a healthy market for that," Joswiak elaborated. "And a healthy market doesn’t mean we have to be market-share leader."
Office for Mac 2015 Screenshots Reveal Parity with Windows
The Verge today reported that Microsoft appears poised to unleash an all-new version of Office for Mac in early 2015 — four long years after the current version. According to internal slides leaked by CnBeta, the user interface has been completely overhauled to better match the Windows version, with deeper integration for Microsoft services like OneDrive and SharePoint. The 2015 edition is also said to include Retina Display support and "a redesigned ribbon interface." There are some rumblings that Microsoft could soon offer a public preview of the new Office for Mac 2015, which will also be included with Office 365 subscriptions.
iOS 8 Finally Passes Halfway Mark for User Adoption
It took five and a half weeks, but iOS 8 appears to be on the rise, with Apple's own developer support page now touting a 52 percent install base as of Monday, October 27. That's a roughly four percent bump over the last two weeks, which not-so coincidentally is the same period when Apple released iOS 8.1, an update that squashed additional bugs and also enabled Apple Pay for iPhone 6 models.
During Apple's October 16 media event, Apple CEO Tim Cook called attention to iOS 8's 48 percent adoption rate as of October 13, which was a modest increase from 46 percent just over two weeks earlier. Critics have blamed the slightly sluggish adoption of iOS 8 on early bugs that wound up getting a lot of attention from the media and bloggers.
Follow this article’s author, J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter
(Image courtesy of CnBeta)
From Mac|Life - All Articles
No comments:
Post a Comment