According to the gadget website T3, Microsoft Senior Product Manager Mike Tedesco recently let it be known that the Seattle based company is currently toying with the possibility of creating a version of their Office suite for Apple’s iPad.

“Yeah, it’s something that we’re looking at,” said Microsoft’s Mike Tedesco, who is the Senior Product Manager for WindowsBU. “Obviously the announcement (of the iPad) is really fresh and there’s nothing to announce or nothing that I can talk to you about today. We’ve had tablet technology forever and both Windows 7 and Windows Vista automatically detect that and you can be running your Office on there.”

This is great news as it is has the ability to attract a huge sector of business users to the iPad. Perhaps this is just a sign of things to come between Apple and Microsoft. We first heard the rumor of the two companies trying to oust Google by making Bing the default search engine on iPhone. Now we learn Microsoft is interested in Office on iPad and what’s next, Office on iPhone?

[Via MacRumors via T3]

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David Barnard of AppCubby talks to TiPb about GasCubby [$6.99 - iTunes link], TripCubby [$6.99 - iTunes link], and HealthCubby [$6.99 - iTunes link]… and shares his iPad thoughts! at Macworld 2010.

Video after the break!

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BeejiveIM [iTunes Link - $9.99] has always been one of TiPb’s favorite IM clients and it continues to impress with the release of version 3.2. This application is arguably one of the finest IM clients currently available for the iPhone and iPod touch and with the following enhancements it’s hard for anyone to dispute.

• Performance enhancements, faster startup time, especially with large number of chats open.
• Dynamic message loading for chats. By default, only the previous 50 messages (configurable) in a chat is loaded at startup, scroll up to load more.
• Groups button added to buddy list (as in contacts.app)
• Search moved to inside buddy list (as in contacts.app)
• Several bug fixes, including several Facebook sync crash problems.
• Several minor UI enhancements

If BeejiveIM is already in your arsonal of apps what are you waiting for, head to the App Store and update now. For those of you still shopping around for a more than decent IM client, BeejiveIM is top notch.

Let us know how it works for you!

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Of course if BNET asks Bill Gates about rival Steve Jobs’ latest creation, the iPad, he’ll have to dismiss it in public — to do otherwise wouldn’t be in service of Microsoft. What’s more telling is his confession about the iPhone (infamously banned at his house) some three years later:

"You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard – in other words a netbook – will be the mainstream on that," he said. "So, it's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.' It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'"

On the heels of those emails we linked to yesterday, detailing his and Jim Allchin’s concerns that Apple had caught Microsoft “flat footed” and “smoked” them, it also brings context to the iPad dismissal, especially considering the eerily similar dismissal of the iPod to BusinessWeek many years ago, as pointed out by Digital Daily:

"There's nothing that the iPod does that I say, 'Oh, wow, I don't think we can do that.'"

And we all know how that turned out.

As to BNET, the introduction to Gates’ interview reads as rather one-sided and Apple/iPad-hostile:

With the sudden ridicule of Steve Jobs' new do-everything media player, Apple has abruptly become a ripe target for those who would like to take it down a notch.

Ridicule? While some haven’t been thrilled with the iPad, much as they weren’t with the iPod when it was announced, almost no one has used it yet, and many have been downright effusive about it. Really, wasn’t the Gates quote link-baity enough?

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