With the latest browser developments, we’d be surprised if Apple allowed Microsoft to sell Office for the iPad… but we’ll leave the predictions for the analysts who get paid too much to say too little.

We want to stress that Mike Tedesco, Microsoft Senior Product Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit, only mentioned this in passing. He didn’t make a formal announcement, and we fully expect Microsoft to play the waiting game before investing any resources into an iPad build of the Office suite.

We have yet to see the public’s reaction to the iPad… from a sales standpoint. We could see strong sales that would spur even more Cocoa Touch development, or we could possibly see the iPad crash and burn like the Newton. We absolutely don’t expect the latter, but we can’t blame Microsoft or any other major developers for conserving their resources.

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