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Microsoft Corp.’s Office productivity suite is, without any doubts, the most popular set of applications ever developed. Nonetheless, at present the suite lacks something here and there, which is why it cannot be called ideal. Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, claims that he actually wants to make Office dramatically better and forward-looking.

“Of all the things that Microsoft needs to do in terms of making people more productive, help them communicate in more ways. It is a long list of opportunities that Microsoft has to innovate,” said Bill Gates, who advices Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella, in an interview with Bloomberg TV. “Making Office dramatically better would be really high on the list. That is a kind of thing that I am trying to help to make sure they move fast on.”

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Microsoft Office is a strategic asset of Microsoft. If the whole world continues to use Office on the majority of computing devices and on all platforms, Microsoft will continue to earn money. Therefore, it is crucial for Microsoft to make the Office suite the best. Without any doubts, Mr. Gates understands the importance of both Windows and Office in the future of the company he has co-founded.

Unfortunately, Bill Gates did not elaborate how Microsoft plans to make Office better.

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KitGuru Says: Obviously, Mr. Gates and developers at Microsoft have a vision for the office of tomorrow, which is how they are going to develop the next-gen Office suit of apps. But what kind of vision do you, dear readers, have? Let’s discuss!

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Microsoft Office apps for iPad hit 12 million downloads https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/microsoft-office-apps-for-ipad-hit-12-million-downloads/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/microsoft-office-apps-for-ipad-hit-12-million-downloads/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:27:47 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=186020 Microsoft Corp. has announced that its Office applications for Apple iPad were downloaded more than 12 million times in just one week. At present, the Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint applications are top free apps in Apple’s AppStore. But is 12 million really a lot? “More than 12 million downloads of Word, Excel, PPT and …

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Microsoft Corp. has announced that its Office applications for Apple iPad were downloaded more than 12 million times in just one week. At present, the Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint applications are top free apps in Apple’s AppStore. But is 12 million really a lot?

“More than 12 million downloads of Word, Excel, PPT and OneNote for iPad at AppStore,” a tweet by Microsoft Office Division reads.

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Microsoft offers a full set of iPad-optimized productivity applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote and many others. Office for iPad apps have a familiar look and feel, but are built from the ground up for iPad and touch-based input. All the Office apps are available for free and allow to read, view and present documents, spreadsheets and presentations. However, to create and edit documents, customers will need an Office 365 subscription (e.g., Office 365 Home Premium subscription costs $9.99 a month and $99.99 a year).

Without any doubts, 12 million downloads in the first week is a respectable number. Moreover, not a lot of applications are that popular in general; many apps are only downloaded by up to a million of customers.

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Nonetheless, one should keep in mind that there are 180 – 200 million iPads in use nowadays and only about 6 per cent of iPad owners decided to try one or more Microsoft Office apps. Moreover, to find out whether the Office is actually used to create on iPad, one would need to know how many Office 365 subscriptions Microsoft sold in the first week of Office for iPad availability and how many subscriptions it sells normally. Apparently, Microsoft does not really want to disclose that number.

”We are extremely pleased with the Office for iPad interest we have seen from consumers and business alike,” a statement by Microsoft reads. “We have no additional details to share.”

KitGuru Says: Looks like thanks to Pages, Numbers, Keynote and other apps from Apple that come for free with new iPads and iPhones, many customers simply do not need Office programs from Microsoft. Meanwhile, those, who have used iPad for some time, probably already own productivity applications they need.

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Microsoft launches free Office for Apple iPad, but there is a catch https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/microsoft-launches-free-office-for-apple-ipad-but-there-is-a-catch/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/microsoft-launches-free-office-for-apple-ipad-but-there-is-a-catch/#respond Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:36:20 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=184707 Microsoft Corp. on Thursday made several announcements regarding Office suite applications for Apple iOS and Google Android mobile platforms. The company introduced Office for the iPad and free Office Mobile apps for iPhone and Android smartphones. While the applications are free to get, Microsoft requires Office 365 subscription to actually use them in a productive …

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Microsoft Corp. on Thursday made several announcements regarding Office suite applications for Apple iOS and Google Android mobile platforms. The company introduced Office for the iPad and free Office Mobile apps for iPhone and Android smartphones. While the applications are free to get, Microsoft requires Office 365 subscription to actually use them in a productive way.

Microsoft offers a full set of iPad-optimized productivity applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics AX, Bing, Lync, Outlook Web Access, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Yammer and Skype. Office for iPad apps have a familiar look and feel, but are built from the ground up for iPad, factoring in the nature of touch and functionality native to iPad along with what people most commonly want to do on a tablet.

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All the Office apps are available for free and allow to read, view and present documents, spreadsheets and presentations. However, to create and edit documents, customers will need an Office 365 subscription (e.g., Office 365 Home Premium subscription costs $9.99 a month and $99.99 a year).

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By offering Office apps for iPad and Office Mobile apps for iPhone and Android-powered smartphones, Microsoft scores two goals:

  • It allows people with Windows PCs and non-Windows mobile gadgets to synchronize their work across all of their computing devices and thus stick to Microsoft Office, not other productivity suites, such as Apple iWork.
  • It clearly proclaims its plan to stay the leading maker of productivity applications for businesses and office work, no matter what software or hardware platforms those apps are run on.

Microsoft Office for iPad is available starting Thursday in 29 languages. The apps require an iPad running iOS 7.0 or later.

With the emergence of the Office for iPad apps, the Office 365 subscription plans start to look a lot better. For $99.99 a year, all the latest Office applications can be used across all your mobile and non-mobile devices. However, if you only need Office for the iPad (in case you already have licensed Office copies installed on your PCs), then the price may not be right.

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KitGuru Says: If you have loads of documents created in Microsoft Office and stored automatically in the cloud, then subscribing for Office apps on iPad makes sense. However, if you do not have loads of documents, then it makes sense to continue using Pages and Numbers apps that come for free with the iPads.

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