# Prof. JP Eggers on Microsoft's iPad-compatible Office software

1 Faculty News March 27, 2014 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters](http://insider.thomsonreuters.com/link.html?cn=uid567020&cid=1219052&shareToken=Mzo4M2ZlNGQzMi0wOTFjLTQzMWEtOGZlOS01YzFiMWU5NTE4YjM%3D) -- "...it's back to what the firm has done well for a long time, which is the Office suite. But it's kind of saying we're going to favor one of the children of the company as opposed to the other, as opposed to trying to keep them together as they've been doing for the last 20-something years."

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Additional coverage appeared on [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/video/can-microsoft-compete-with-apple-in-retail-SrfQbKdaToK0Lr7xXPIzmw.html%20) and [Bloomberg Businessweek](http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-03-27/can-microsoft-compete-with-apple-in-retail%20).