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Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free
Mark Wilson writes: After a few weeks in preview, Microsoft Office is now available for Android smartphones. Despite Microsoft's mobile-first, cloud-first philosophy, it has actually taken some time to bring the world's most popular office suite to Android phones — it joins the tablet version of the suite that was released last year. Just like the tablet editions, the phone versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint won't cost you a penny, allowing for the viewing and editing of a range of files when on the move. There is a cloud focus with support for not only OneDrive, but also Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box, and Microsoft says it has made changes based on the feedback received during the preview period.
Yeah, no kidding. Both Android and iOS have brought us smaller, leaner apps which take up far less space.
Microsoft still wants to give us fat x86 binaries.
Oh well, it's not like I'd be running this anyway.
Once again, Microsoft is so heavily stuck in the "I'm a PC and he's a Mac" mindset they're incapable of looking past Office and Exchange.
Good innovating there, Microsoft. The killer mobile app isn't a fucking Power Point slide.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Or Office for that matter.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Not correct.
You might need to learn the difference between "Not correct" and "Pretty much exactly what you said, but I don't like it so I'm going to make a big deal where such is not warranted".
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
With all the money that Microsoft charges for patents used by Android, I'd hardly call it free.
Microsoft is just trying to get everybody locked in to their proprietary format.