Armed with a $900 million argument, an analyst has raised the Office-on-iPad banner, saying that the flop of the Surface RT gives Microsoft a chance to make billions in lemonade from its lemon.
” ‘Protecting’ Windows RT by keeping Office off of Apple’s iPad and Android tablets isn’t working,” said J.P. Gownder, a principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, in a recent blog. “It’s instead creating risk for Office as users find other ways of getting things done.”
Gownder tied Microsoft’s recent $900 million write-down of the Surface RT by Microsoft to a renewed call for the company to sell its ubiquitous productivity suite on rivals’ tablets.
“The biggest asset Windows RT has is actually based on an app that Microsoft hasn’t released—Office for Apple‘s iPad,” Gownder wrote, referring to the operating system that powers the Surface RT. Windows RT bundles Office Home & Student 2013 RT, which includes touch-based versions of Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word that run in a special “desktop” mode.
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