Apple and VMware team up to build iPad Microsoft Office killer

CRN is reporting that Apple and VMware are teaming to build an IOS cloud based office suite that will let you ditch Office entirely.

"According to sources with knowledge of the project, the iPad app combines VMware View virtual-desktop software with cloud-hosted versions of Pages, Keynote and Numbers -- known as the iWork suite -- running on Apple infrastructure. VMware's Horizon Application Manager, a management tool that has been likened to an enterprise app store, is also included, sources told CRN."

and just as Microsoft readies a version of it`s Office suite for the iPad, this happens

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