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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. Google Uses Quick Office... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's NOT super effective.

    Let's get real. An office-ish app on a smart phone is NOT a challenge to a full blown desktop office suite. To suggest that it is indicates an absolute lack of understanding of the user base and use cases for office suites.

  2. War between Google and Microsoft getting hotter. by boorack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In other news patent cartel created by Microsoft and Apple attacks Google and others. Somewhat sad to see when one side of this battle uses product superiority and the other one resorts to lawyers and patent trolls. It just underscores roteness and corrupion of US corporate economy.

  3. Apple not MS by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful


    This is more of an attack against Apple giving away the iWork package for free. MS is barely a blip on the radar.

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