From InfoWorld: In a surprise move, Microsoft sent a pair of representatives to Apple's big press event in San Francisco Wednesday morning to demonstrate new features in Office for iOS that are tailored for the new iPad Pro.
Kirk Koenigsbauer, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Office 365 client applications, came on stage at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium to show new changes to the company's suite of apps for Apple's tablet, including the ability to draw freehand shapes on a Word or PowerPoint document, and then get them translated into shapes like arrows or circles.
It's designed to take advantage of Apple's new Pencil stylus for the iPad Pro, a $99 accessory the company announced just ahead of Koenigsbauer's appearance on stage. Users can also use touch to annotate documents with a stylus or finger, and have those annotations sync across Office apps on iOS and other platforms.
In addition, the apps can take advantage of the new iPad multitasking features in iOS 9 to let users copy and paste content across different Office apps running side by side. That means users can take a chart from an Excel spreadsheet that they're looking at on the right-hand side of an iPad Pro or iPad Air 2's screen, and copy it to a Word document that's taking up the left half of the device's screen real estate.
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