Hopefully a lot of people will love the new MS Word for iPad. I'm sure it is a fine Word processor that can do wonders with Word processing.
However, one of its potential advantages is stymied: the Cloud. I use my iPad on the road. I use it in airplanes, in trains and buses going through tunnels and in distant mountain villages where there is no internet. I can do none of the above with Word for iPad.
If I were to subscribe to Office 365, I could use my iPad to edit documents in Microsoft's Skydrive cloud. However, I can only do so when I am connected. Basically, I cannot do much more than I can in a Webbrowser. 99 Euro a year is not a huge amount, but it is far too much for a product I cannot see I would ever use.
For those who already are heavy users of Skydrive, Word for iPad may make sense. Personally, I will stay with Pages, which works properly with iCloud and synchronisation of offline documents.
