Tuesday 8 April 2014

Office for iPad apps reach 12 million downloads milestone: Microsoft

Microsoft has declared that its four productivity apps for Apple iPad users - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - have together surpassed twelve million downloads from the iTunes App Store. The firm didn't mention the breakdown for downloads.

While the Microsoft Word, surpass and PowerPoint separate apps were discharged simply per week agone, the OneNote app has been out there for a few of years on the iPad device.

The news came via a tweet early-Friday from Microsoft's official 'Office' account, that explicit  "More than twelve million downloads of Word, Excel, PPT & OneNote for #iPad from the @AppStore <3 #OfficeforiPad."

Notably, these workplace apps area unit liberated to anyone WHO needs to browse Office's Word, surpass and PowerPoint programs on the iPad, it'll need a subscription to Microsoft's workplace 365 to form and edit documents on the device. The workplace 365 subscriptions value $70 (roughly Rs. 4,209) or $100 (roughly Rs. 6011) annually, with the lower cost inserting additional restrictions on the amount and kinds of devices which will be used.

The firm conjointly created a very important amendment to its apps for iPhone and automaton mobile devices. With the recent update of Microsoft workplace Mobile for iPhone and automaton, piece of writing workplace files is free for 'home use'. Earlier, users might solely read Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on their mobile devices, however piece of writing them needed a paid Microsoft workplace 365 subscription.


Though Microsoft same piece of writing of documents via workplace Mobile for iPhone and automaton is free just for 'home use' and still expects enterprise users to get a subscription for workplace 365, within the universe the corporate has no checks over wherever the app is being downloaded and used, thus all users will enjoy this move.

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