Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @07:25AM from the coming-together dept.

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.

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Re:Free? by gweilo8888 · 2015-06-24 13:05 · Score: 1, Redundant

Grandparent represented it as fully-featured other than obscure features like version tracking: That's not true. Microsoft are representing it as free, but for business use (which is the primary use for something like this), that's not true either.

Sorry you don't like my post, but that doesn't make it any less correct.