The Office for iPad IAmA (as me anything) on Reddit earlier today. _The team is actually rather small and is the same group that writes the Office for Mac applications. _While there was not anything groundbreaking revealed, there were some interesting questions answered. Q: Hi!_Where there any_unforeseen_complications in the making of these apps? How did you handle it? A:_Yes, we ran into a number of complications, most of them involving resource constraints. For example, if you opened a document in Word with a lot of comment bubbles, Word would run out of memory. Fixing some of these required re-architecting some features, which is one of the reasons it took us so long. _–Rick To pile on to what Rick said, PowerPoint ran into similar resource constraints for SlideShow. We wanted to make sure that everything worked as you would expect (transitions, animations, etc.) and as you can imagine that is quite hard to do on a small device. We had to make several trade-offs to get the experience just right...

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