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If you know Microsoft Office for the desktop, you already know Office for iPad. There are so many similarities between the two, that making the transition will be a seamless experience. Microsoft Office for iPad has that signature Microsoft look—Blue for Word, Green for Excel, and Orange for Powerpoint. The colors are the first, but certainly not the only visual cue. A nice, clean tabbed format is common to all of the apps. And all proved quick and responsive to traditional Apple touch gestures. We took the new suite for s spin directly after the presentation and are impressed with…

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At an event in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), a new service that brings together its existing enterprise management solutions, such as Intune and Azure Active Directory, into a “holistic offering.” Speaking at the event, new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reiterated his emphasis on a mobile-first/cloud-first approach for the company with the tagline “a cloud for everyone on every device.” He highlighted the Enterprise Mobility Suite as a crucial component of Microsoft’s enterprise efforts. “[The Enterprise Mobility Suite], perhaps to me, is the most strategic piece of what infrastructure development we are doing in support of enterprises,” Nadella said. Enterprise Mobility…

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