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Google Attacks Microsoft Again: Android 4.4 Ships With Quickoffice

Posted by timothy on from the file-formats-yet-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With Android 4.4 KitKat, Google's biggest blow to Microsoft isn't against Windows Phone. It's against Microsoft Office. You see, KitKat ships with Quickoffice, letting you edit Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the go, without paying a dime, straight out of the box. This tidbit was largely lost in the news yesterday, given the large number of improvements and new features that KitKat offers. Yet it's a very big deal: every Android user that upgrades to KitKat will get Google's Quickoffice, and every new Android device (starting with the Nexus 5) that ships with KitKat or higher will also get Quickoffice."

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  1. Re:quickoffice is free and available to any Androi by SuperDre · · Score: -1, Troll

    yeah, great, another android fuck-up, if you're tablet or phone is pre-loaded with it, you can't update to a newer version unless the manufacturer releases a newer version.. therefore i'm stuck to a very old version of quickoffice on my xoom...

  2. Re:quickoffice is free and available to any Androi by mcgrew · · Score: -1, Troll

    yeah, great, another android fuck-up, if you're tablet or phone is pre-loaded with it

    Speaking of fuck ups, did Android make you do that? Protip: an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate.

    I modeled the protagonist in the book I'm writing after guys like you. "i aint never went to college."

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    Free Martian Whores!
  3. Re:quickoffice is free and available to any Androi by Joining+Yet+Again · · Score: -1, Troll

    *fuck-ups
    *Pro-tip
    *modelled
    *you: