Microsoft Ready to Launch Office for iPhone, iPad

[ARMOUR]

Office for iPhone and iPad

Microsoft is working hard to bring Office on some new platforms and according to a new report, the company has completed development of the iOS version and is now waiting for the green light to debut the product.

Reuters is reporting, via unnamed sources of course, that Office for iPhone and iPad is ready to launch, but Chief Executive Satya Nadella, who replaced Steve Ballmer at the helm of the company in February, needs to give his go-ahead to let the products hit the market.

Recent reports have confirmed that Office for iPad is a sure thing, but nobody knew exactly when the company was planning to bring it to users. It appears however that Office will hit iOS platforms before Android and Windows 8, which means that Microsoft sees Apple’s mobile platform as a very appealing market that could help boost revenues for the Office division.

Another thing that needs to be taken into consideration is the increasing competition coming from alternative productivity suites, most of which are offered free of charge, unlike Office that still remains a very expensive solution.

At this point, many companies and organizations across the world are dumping Office in the favor of open-source products such as LibreOffice, which provides almost the same functionality, but free of charge.

SOURCE:

• Reuters
• SOFTPEDIA

[Sonar]

november rain will be hititng this like flys around a bone lol

[geeteam]

Hehehe

[geeteam]

Hehehe, I already have office 365 on my Android

[anuseems]

Microsoft is bringing elements of its Office suite, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, to iPad in a bid to win over the ever expanding tablet user base, which has largely been neglected by Redmond.

From Techradar:

One option is to use Office 365, Microsoft's subscription service for Office. Microsoft's Surface devices require Office 365 to run the Office suite hinting at the path Microsoft may choose to take for Office on iPad.

For £79.99 (US$99.99, AU$119) a year, or £7.99 (US$9.99, AU$12) a month, Microsoft 365 gives you OneDrive (née SkyDrive) storage, international Skype minutes, all of the Office suite and syncing between devices.

It would stand to reason that the iPad version would require this to work, but is it necessarily the best way for Microsoft to go about it?

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/mobile-computing/tablets/microsoft-office-on-ipad-too-little-too-late--1235918

Edited March 24, 2014 by anuseems

[Mr Orus]

Threads merged.