Microsoft announced that most of the features to edit and create new documents are now free for iOS users. Android apps are betas and the final version arrives in 2015.
Microsoft said Thursday that its Office 365 applications for iPhone, iPad and Android tablets are now free and can be used without be a subscriber to Office 365. The announcement, surprise, comes as a way to ensure that users continue using their office applications on mobile devices.
Recognized Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications are now available for iPhone and allow the app to Office Mobile side which included three applications. With the three apps available on the iPhone, users now have all the features that already existed in the iPad and be able to continue editing or creating a new document on the fly.
Office for iPhone was not built from scratch but Microsoft took into account what has been done with Office for iPad applications and adapted for smaller products apple screens. Applications are available in the App Store for today
Android users were also surprises, as the same –Word applications Excel and PowerPoint– reach Google’s mobile platform. While this is great news, applications are not ready to get into the hands of any user, so Microsoft released on Thursday, the advancement of applications for users early adopters can download the applications and start using;. the final and stable version arrives in early 2015
To download the previous version of Office for Android can start registration on the following link to Microsoft.
For iPad, and applications were already available for several months, there is not new. Microsoft will launch during the day a series of updates for applications for Apple tablets. The news is not many, and more updates are to add support for the screen of the iPhone and iPad in the same app.
applications, but are free to download, enter the model freemium, because they offer the option of in-app purchases. Office for iPad, iPhone and Android in free mode offer basic tools for creating and editing; if the user wants more features, you have the option to purchase a subscription to Office 365
The difference between the free and paid features are clearer with an example. In Word, you can receive a document and edit the font size, the font and font color, but can not change the document orientation. Also, when you receive a Word document into columns, you can edit the text inside the boxes, but you can not change the format of the columns. Modify format columns and orientation of a document are premium features for users.
Upgrading applications for iPhone and iPad will be available during the day.
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