The Battle of the Functional

Πιο ελκυστικές σε όσο το δυνατόν περισσότερους κατόχους «έξυπνων» συσκευών προσπαθούν να κάνουν τις σουίτες γραφείου τους οι κολοσσοί Microsoft, Google και Apple, είτε προσθέτοντας καινούργια χαρακτηριστικά είτε αναπτύσσοντας νέες εκδόσεις ώστε να υποστηρίζουν μεγαλύτερη γκάμα μηχανημάτων. Κάθε μία από τις εταιρείες έχει διαφορετικά κίνητρα για την εξέλιξη του «πακέτου» των προγραμμάτων της, παίρνοντας μέρος σε αυτό τον ανταγωνισμό για το ποιο software είναι το πιο εύχρηστο και λειτουργικό για τη texts, spreadsheets or presentations. Regardless of the reason, the result is that the three suites have recently been upgraded, offering even more possibilities to those who use them.

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As far as the Microsoft suite is concerned, the biggest news was the announcement of "Office for iPad" at the end of March. A first version of Office for tablets, which even makes a virgin appearance in a non-Windows-based model, Office for iPad includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The programs are designed from the beginning so they are completely handy through the touch screen, so the impressions they have left on experts and not to be very positive, as is our opinion. Therefore, it is rather normal that in just a week, the plants touched 12 millions.

Στο διάστημα που μεσολάβησε από το λανσάρισμα, η αμερικανική εταιρεία φρόντισε να ενσωματώσει τη δυνατότητα εκτύπωσης απευθείας από το iPad, η οποία απουσίαζε αρχικά. Επιπλέον, έκανε τη σουίτα της πιο δελεαστική και από άποψη ς, για όσους θέλουν να επεξεργάζονται αρχεία Office στην ταμπλέτα τους. Κι αυτό γιατί στα τέλη Απριλίου εγκαινίασε την υπηρεσία «Office 365 για προσωπική χρήση», μέσω της οποίας μπορεί κανείς με συνδρομή 7€ τον μήνα (ή 69€ ετησίως) να συνδυάσει το «Office for iPad» μαζί με το Office για ένα PC ή Mac. Μέχρι εκείνη τη στιγμή, η σουίτα για το tablet προσφερόταν αποκλειστικά με την υπηρεσία «Office 365 για Οικιακή χρήση», με μηνιαία συνδρομή 10€ (ή 99€ τον χρόνο).

A few days ago, Google "responded" to the appearance of Office on the iPad, launching Google Docs and Google Sheets for all "smart" Android and iOS devices, εφαρμογές για τη σύνταξη εγγράφων και υπολογιστικών φύλλων αντίστοιχα. Οπως και η Google Slides για τη δημιουργία παρουσιάσεων, την οποία ο ιντερνετικός κολοσσός θα λανσάρει σύντομα, οι δύο application είναι οι πρώτες ανάλογες από την Google οι οποίες δίνουν τη δυνατότητα στους να φυλάσσουν τα αρχεία που δημιουργούν στη συσκευή τους, χωρίς επομένως να χρειάζονται σύνδεση στο Ιντερνετ. Μέχρι τώρα, για να αποκτήσει κανείς πρόσβαση στη σουίτα της αμερικανικής εταιρείας από ταμπλέτα ή «έξυπνο» κινητό, θα έπρεπε να χρησιμοποιήσει τον «ιντερνετικό σκληρό δίσκο» Drive, ο οποίος ήταν επίσης η μόνη διαθέσιμη για την αποθήκευση των αρχείων.

One of the major benefits of the programs is that they are completely free of charge, and they are the only ones that are compatible with all existing smartphones and tablets - except for Windows Phone-powered mobiles. They also allow anyone to "lock" them, defining the password of their choice. At the same time, however, they include fewer functions than the two companies' respective programs, which are even less in the case of Google Docs and Google Sheets for Apple's "smart" devices. So, for the time being, for example, Google Docs on iPad does not allow the import of pictures and charts, or the creation of headers and footers.

Apple, on the other hand, is using the iWork suite as an extra "strong paper" for Macs, iPhones and iPads, having been offering iWork for free to anyone who buys any of its products since last October. In the last month, however, he has made this paper even stronger by intervening in the design of all three suite programs (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) and adding the option to share files with other users, without them being able to process. The company also made several individual functional improvements to the three programs, and upgraded the suite's web version, iWork for iCloud, to support Retina display machines.

For mobile phones

The three internet giants may increasingly place their office suites on "smart" devices, but that does not mean that the programs developed by less well-known companies are inevitably overshadowed. One example is Microsoft's move to offer the Office Mobile (Office Mobile) version of the iPhone and Android smartphones by the end of March. Office Mobile lets you view and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, and is fully compatible with Office for PC and Mac, but has the disadvantage that it does not allow storage on the device and therefore requires Internet connectivity. Even if you choose Google's alternative as an alternative, the problem in this case is that you can not "open" attachments to mail.

So for Android phones, three suites that do not have the above limitations are FreeOffice and Kingsoft Office as well as OfficeSuite Pro 7 that costs 7,23 euros. The three suites can also be used in tablets with Google's operating system, from which Microsoft and Apple products are "missing" anyway.

On the other hand, with regard to iPhone, Apple's iWork solution is also advantageous for smartphones purchased last September, since in this case the US company has Pages, Numbers and Keynote at 9 each. The same applies to the owners of an Apple tablet purchased earlier than September, who also do not want to choose the "Office for iPad" subscription.

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