Is there a thread already on this, or just this morning's news post? Delete if necessary.


Anyway, if you follow the news you would have read the Daily's story (and follow up rumour sites) that they have and played with an unreleased version of Microsoft Office for iPad. Well then Microsoft hit back saying it was a hoax - not a real Microsoft product. I thought that was the end of the story, but Twitter tells a different story.


Peter Ha of the Daily has since tweeted: "For the record: the image that accompanies our Office for iPad story is not fake." He then when on to tweet "This image also ran with the story:http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/21/022112-tech-front/. Want to dispute this one too, @microsoft?" and that's not all...


When a ZDNet journalist tried to bring the Daily to account, Peter Ha tweeted: "@maryjofoley we did not fabricate either image. A working version of the app was demoed to us by someone at Microsoft."


And now Microsoft has just tweeted: Great respect for The Daily but regrettably someone is giving them bad info, and that’ll be clear in the “coming weeks.”

This is gold! I for one can't wait for Microsoft to release Office for iPad. And I'm sure the corporate world can't wait either. But this back and forth between the Daily and Microsoft is something else. My guess is that Microsoft is trying to keep it on the down-low...maybe they have made a launch deal with Apple for the iPad 3?

Isn't The Daily a News Corp paper?

Yep, it's a Murdoch paper. Who knows who's lying here. But The Daily isn't taking this lying down, and for that matter neither is Microsoft. I don't think The Daily would be pushing back so hard if they didn't genuinely believe they've played with the real Office. Murdoch's papers know better these days.

*rubs hands*

Ooh, the plot thickens!

I'll get the popcorn.

MS should have shut their mouth. Obvious its real now.

Filth, Microsoft Works for years was light versions of word, excel and powerpoint all rolled into one, as I recall.

I think it is obviously something planned for the ipad 3 release, and some tool at MS couldn't keep their mouth shut.

And now an internet journalist can't just sit back and wait for vindication in the fullness of time. He should say no more now.

Of course MS will also eventually try to portray ipad office as a shadow of the real thing on metro.

This was published in tonight's The Daily: Bad day at the Office - WWW.THEDAILY.COM

That's pretty unequivocal.

Originally Posted by entropy

Filth, Microsoft Works for years was light versions of word, excel and powerpoint all rolled into one, as I recall.

Sure, but when did they last release a version of Works? They may bundle the apps into one ala every other office app bundle on the iPhone/iPad but the Messenger angle still smacks of fakery to me.

Edit: Just read the linked article...this really is just a storm in a teacup now. MS, we know it's coming, we've known it's been coming for months, just do the damn reveal and sell the thing. You don't have to be all coy about it.

As for The Daily, I think maybe it was a victim of republishing on other site. I didn't read the original article and I didn't see it mentioned anywhere as a prototype build on the posts that I saw from other outlets.

Originally Posted by thatfilthyspringbok

As for The Daily, I think maybe it was a victim of republishing on other site. I didn't read the original article and I didn't see it mentioned anywhere as a prototype build on the posts that I saw from other outlets.

It was an exclusive The Daily article. I may have just misread what you wrote, but what I'm saying is they didn't republish any other blog's story - it was written by them alone.