Microsoft's To-Do App Comes To Mac (betanews.com) 49
Microsoft has released To-Do for Mac, finally giving Apple users access to the task management tool on their desktops. The Mac app will allow users to work offline, view their upcoming tasks under "My Day," share to-do lists with friends and colleagues and see flagged emails. From a report: "Today, we'd like to announce the arrival of a new family member -- that's right, the moment many of you have been waiting for is here -- say hello to the Mac app. If you've already been using our app on Android, iOS, Windows, or web, then the Mac app will feel very familiar. Sign in and all your tasks will be waiting for you, ready to be checked off. You can work offline, add tasks to My Day, see your flagged email in your Flagged email list, and share your lists with colleagues or friends and family. The Planner integration isn't available yet, but we're already working on bringing the Assigned to Me list to you," says Polly Davidson, Social Media Strategist, Microsoft.
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I like OS X and the MS office 365 platform is excellent.
You can keep your religion.
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I use what works for me and to hell with the manufacturer.
Me too. I have a 15" MacBook. But for my to-do list, I use a spiral notebook and a felt-tip pen (more reliable than a ballpoint pen, and works in any orientation). Works for me.
It is more difficult to automatically share with co-workers, but I see that as a feature. Boss: "Why is your daughter's piano recital marked with a higher priority than completing the code review?"
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Re: Whoohoo (Score:1)
Microsoft Word and Excel were the reason a lot of people got their first Mac, back in the heyday of the Macintosh.
In the early years some of the best serious applications for the Mac came from Microsoft.
Many of you? (Score:3)
"that's right, the moment many of you have been waiting for is here"
Yeah, all 3 of them and one confused dog.
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My sympathies. But don't worry, perhaps you'll get to do real development one day.
No MS (Score:3)
Just no. Keep your spyware on your own alleged OS.
will allow users to work offline (Score:1)
sad that we've actually come to "will allow users to work offline" for a ... to-do list app... wow... corporations even want my to-do list on their servers?
UI (Score:2)
Serious question (Score:4, Informative)
What's special about Microsoft's "to do" app? There are dozens of these sorts of apps already available for the Mac.
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Microsoft acquired the to-do app Wunderlist, which is (was?) already on PC, Mac, iOS and (presumably) other mobile platforms.
MS To Do is Wunderlist rebranded and, presumably, enhanced and Microsoified. I guess it's no surprise it's on Mac, given it's pedigree.
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Ah, thank you.
I know some people really liked Wunderlist. For me, it wasn't a great fit back when I tried it out.
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To-Do is a complete rewrite, not a rebrand of Wunderlist. It's pretty much reached feature parity now that the Mac version is released.
To-Do has a bunch of integration with other MS things like Outlook (but not the Mac version), Teams (I think), etc. but I haven't experienced those.
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Lost their minds ... (Score:1)
Honestly, are Microsoft so arrogant and delusional that they believe people using OS's other than those made by Microsoft are sitting around pining for the day when Microsoft decides to drop a little turd of an application nobody wants?
Sorry, but people already not using MS products, don't give a fuck about the absence of MS products.
After years of trying to lock everyone into their OS, and apparently utterly failing in the phone market, they now suddenly have a strategy of releasing software for all of tho
Re: Lost their minds ... (Score:1)
You seem to give enough of a damn to type in four paragraphs.
I was just thinking... (Score:2, Informative)
No, wait... No one thought that, ever.
Gathering data from high-income users... (Score:2, Troll)
I'm happy enough about it (Score:3)
I have one of the very few Macs in my organisation of 100 000+ people as my day-to-day machine. Now that the org has moved to Office 365, I have full access to the Office suite with the latest versions and I'm pretty happy about that. Outlook is nice to use, and streets ahead of Apple's Mail mainly because of the calendaring. Not quite as user-friendly, but now that I am using an application that has feature parity with the other 99, 999 people in my organisation, I don't mind that much. PPT is handy, too, for my work and if I ever need the To Do app, it's good to know I now have it.
Also nifty is Outlook on my iPhone with no need for IT's intervention or help.
This is why MS is making the whole office suite available for Macs and other devices: so everyone in business and government gets on the Office 365 platform, or at least has fewer reasons not to use it.
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So MS is so thrilled with their spyware they figure everyone should have shot at it? Profit motive be damned, folks, MS has your well-being in mind when it comes to using its spyware.
So what todo apps are people using? (Score:2)
and which ones share well?
I feel like PIM innovation has been dying off, and kinda peaked with the Palm Pilot. Lifebalance almost worked, I would have liked to see that one evolve.