Microsoft zaps self in foot with WinPho/Office remote control app Microsoft Research has released something cute: a Windows Phone app that acts as a “remote control” for Office 2013. Office Remote, available here, “turns your phone into a smart remote that interacts with Microsoft Office on your PC. The app lets you control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint from across the room, so you can walk …
Funny, I make a comment about Microsoft, and your reaction is to start stalking me.
FYI: "Our records show you have been a member since 2007-12-17"
Do you need my home telephone number too, or is that enough for Microsoft you to be going on with?
Also, could you explain what bearing my identity has on Microsoft's propensity to screw up?
"If you don't want someone looking at your posts and making comments based on them"
I don't especially care if you do, one way or another, I'm just remarking on the irony of an anonymous poster believing that "exposing" the identity of the messenger would somehow invalidate the message or, failing that, silence the messenger with intimidation.
I didn't say that such behaviour was likely to be effective, although apparently my stalker does, otherwise he wouldn't have attempted it in the first place.
But effective or otherwise, I don't really see much point in me posting anonymously, when I'm already posting pseudonymously, which makes my stalker's expectations all the more ridiculous.
I installed it on my Lumia and Surface 2 Pro and it is a cool application. In PowerPoint beside forward/back buttons you can jump to any slide clicking its thumbnail on the phone, and it also shows slides notes on the phone. Excel navigation is less interesting to me, but you can move around your spreadsheet (you can also jump to any named range) and change zoom level.
I'm in Italy, but I usually have my devices with English language and Italian regional settings, and I had no issue with this settings.
THat it doesn't work with ARM devices is clearly stated when you download it. People should start to understand the "requirements" section usually means what it is required to run something.
It just took me about two minutes to install this on my phone and laptop and begin remotely controlling a PPT. My phone is UK English.
It's actually pretty nice. The notes to the slides are shown on the phone screen, which is a nice touch, and there's a laser pointer feature as well as slide browser. I can't imagine using it very often, but it certainly functions as it is described. The fact that you can't install the PowerPoint plugin to Office RT is stated in the readme and really isn't much of a surprise is it?
.. but I have had this feature on my iPhone for Keynote for absolute years. On an iPad it's even better because you get a decent preview. As a matter of fact, there are quite a few solutions out there (some of which even work with Powerpoint on either Windows or OSX) so pardon me for not being impressed. It's only new to Microsoft.
Just make sure you use an ad hoc WiFi link or Bluetooth, having to depend on another network for controlling your presentation is not a good idea in my experience.
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