Whatever Happened to Office for iOS?



Whatever Happened to Office for iOS? (via slashdot)

When it rolled out Office 365 Home Premium earlier this week, Microsoft touted the cloud productivity suite’s many supposed advantages, including its support for up to five devices on a single license. Although hundreds of millions of people use Office, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted in a Jan…



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Comments

  1. BY S.Fuller says:

    Ahh the good old “unnamed sources”. :) My guess – If they are holding that iOS Office card, they are going to wait for a while to play it, like until after the final version of Office for Windows RT ships and after the release of the non-RT version of the Surface. Next few months on the tablet front will be interesting with Apple upgrading their top of the line model of iPad to 128GB of storage.

  2. BY S.Fuller says:

    Ahh the good old “unnamed sources”. :) My guess – If they are holding that iOS Office card, they are going to wait for a while to play it, like until after the final version of Office for Windows RT ships and after the release of the non-RT version of the Surface. Next few months on the tablet front will be interesting with Apple upgrading their top of the line model of iPad to 128GB of storage.

  3. BY stevetabler says:

    While it may seem to Microsoft that they are making an attractive offer to Microsoft Office fans that their annual subscription to an online version of office is a considerable savings over having office locally installed on the desktop, they are still charging a substantial fee for a product that has an equivalent on Google available for free. Hmmm, let’s see, what do I want $99/year for CloudOffice, or $00/year for GooglleDocs…hmmm, tough decision…..

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