Microsoft has finally introduced Office for iPad
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The company's executive director, Satya Nadella, today, on March 27th, announced the release of MS Office for iPad at a conference in San Francisco. “Microsoft wants people to be productive using any device,” he said. The release of the office suite marked an important step of the software giant in the direction of mobile devices, which will allow it to keep up with the mobile equipment race.
Microsoft general manager Julia White said that as of 11 am Pacific time on Thursday (19.00 Moscow time), the key programs of Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint will be available on the iPad App Store. Microsoft's popular email application, Outlook, is not in the list of available programs. All submitted applications are free, but in the free version you can only view documents. To create and edit have to pay $ 7 per month. Office 365 subscribers will not need to make additional purchases.
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Judging by the demonstration, the application interface is well optimized for the iPad:
This announcement marked the departure of the company from the policy that dominated it when it was managed by Steve Ballmer, and most software was exclusively for the Windows platform.
Will it help to breathe new life into Microsoft? We will live - we will see, we will live - we will learn.
In the meantime, the giant's shares fell slightly in price - MSFT -0.42 (-1.07%)
Update 1: Applications are already available in the Russian App Store.
Update 2: A great overview of the programs from the presented office suite on PCWorld in English.
The company's executive director, Satya Nadella, today, on March 27th, announced the release of MS Office for iPad at a conference in San Francisco. “Microsoft wants people to be productive using any device,” he said. The release of the office suite marked an important step of the software giant in the direction of mobile devices, which will allow it to keep up with the mobile equipment race.
Microsoft general manager Julia White said that as of 11 am Pacific time on Thursday (19.00 Moscow time), the key programs of Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint will be available on the iPad App Store. Microsoft's popular email application, Outlook, is not in the list of available programs. All submitted applications are free, but in the free version you can only view documents. To create and edit have to pay $ 7 per month. Office 365 subscribers will not need to make additional purchases.
')
Judging by the demonstration, the application interface is well optimized for the iPad:
This announcement marked the departure of the company from the policy that dominated it when it was managed by Steve Ballmer, and most software was exclusively for the Windows platform.
Will it help to breathe new life into Microsoft? We will live - we will see, we will live - we will learn.
In the meantime, the giant's shares fell slightly in price - MSFT -0.42 (-1.07%)
Update 1: Applications are already available in the Russian App Store.
Update 2: A great overview of the programs from the presented office suite on PCWorld in English.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/217287/
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