Microsoft released free Office for iPhone
June 17, 2013 | Author: Adam Levine
Think Microsoft has finally stopped playing political games and released Office for the competing platform? Of course not. Political games go on. Just Microsoft has invented the better idea. Yes, they are really launching full-featured Word, Excel and PowerPoint for iPhone. And these apps - are really free. But they can be used only by Office 365 subscribers (who pay from $99.99 a year). And, of course, these apps can open and edit only those documents that are stored in SkyDrive cloud or on enterprise SharePoint server. But even with these limitations, Microsoft hasn't yet dared to release Office for iPad, otherwise its latest ads iPad vs Surface wouldn't be so funny any more.
As for functionality, the Office for iPhone is quite decent. It supports rich media content like charts, animations, SmartArt graphics and shapes. And since it works through MS’ cloud service, all changes saved on the phone updates the original, too. And of course, the main advantage of this mobile office is the best compatibility with Microsoft's document formats.
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