Microsoft is strengthened in Android and mobile devices … – lanacion.com (Argentina)

Thursday March 26, 2015 | 00:58

Technology

The programs Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive and Skype will be preinstalled on the Samsung and Dell computers; addition, the company announced extend its office suite free tablets and laptops with screens less than 10 inches

Microsoft announced that version of Office Mobile devices come preinstalled on some computers from Dell and Samsung. Photo: Courtesy Microsoft

Microsoft seeks to extend the presence of the office suite beyond personal computers to announce the availability of Office for mobile devices with smaller screens a 10-inch iOS, Android and Windows. In this way, users can use the basic functions for viewing and editing documents, while advanced features of Word, Excel or PowerPoint are available for those subscribers to Office 365 subscription service.

At the Office multiplatform presence of devices Microsoft’s recent agreements with Dell and Samsung, who have preinstalled mobile applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive and Skype in certain models of tablets and laptops are added.

At this point, the Samsung Galaxy S6 will be one of the first devices that have preinstalled Office package.

“Our goal is that both the Office and Microsoft services available to the greatest number of possible mobile devices. In less than a year we have achieved over 80 million downloads of Office for iOS, “said Kirk Koenigsbauer, vice president of mobile applications Office 365 in an official statement from the company.

The pattern adopted by Microsoft represents a change in the way to license one of its most lucrative software by providing a freemium model in Office with some basic services free of charge that can be expanded via a subscription. Something similar happened with your operating system, which is freely available for manufacturers who want to use Windows on tablets and laptops with screens smaller than 10 inches.

The mobile strategy also extends to applications developed or acquired by Microsoft not only available for Windows Phone or Windows 8.1, but also for iOS and Android, such as Outlook (based email client accompli) or manager of Sunrise calendars.

A In turn, the next update of the operating system known as Windows 10 is cross platform, available for both smartphones, tablets and PCs, even on computers that have a pirated copy. .