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Microsoft Will Release Office For iOS and Android Next Year?

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Earlier this month The Verge revealed that Microsoft Office is coming for iOS and Android. The apps are supposedly being prepped for launch in the first half of next year. The app was to bring the company’s cloud-based Office 365 to a wider range of customers and to allow them access to the service from non-Microsoft operating systems. The Office app is said to be free to download but will require a subscription to Office 365 to activate editing function, without which the app can only be used as a file viewer.

Microsoft realizes that its mobile devices are far from being dominant, unlike its desktop operating system. Eventually people may embrace Windows Phone and Windows tablets but in the meantime there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices in the market running non-Microsoft systems and consumers don’t seem to bat an eye. They seem to be used…

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