Microsoft Reportedly Moving Office to the iPad

The Daily, a made-for-the-iPad start-up national news service that kicked off in February, claims it’s heard from anonymous sources that Microsoft is adapting Office to the iPad. The blog puts the price at around $10, because that’s what Apple charges for its own iWork Pages, Numbers and Keynote programs. ZDnet’s Mary Jo Foley, who usually has the inside track on things going on at Microsoft, says she wouldn’t be surprised but wonders exactly how much functionality such a thing would have since Microsoft has to be wary of cannibalizing its second-biggest cash cow.

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