Microsoft extends Office: iOS updates

With Satya Nadella at the helm, Microsoft has fully embraced a cross-platform strategy, and Office is the perfect example. After releasing tactile versions for iPad of some of its tools in March, Redmond's will continue to extend their office suite with the arrival of new devices and systems in the coming months .

If the first step was to publish Word, Excel and PowerPoint on iOS with a version optimized for iPad; Now it's time to extend it to iPhone. At the same time, and thanks to the fact that they are developed on the same code base, Microsoft already has a previous version of Office ready for Android tablets.All of this, of course, without forgetting the corresponding version for Windows 10, which will be released in 2015. The goal? that Office be everywhere

Updates on iPad and iPhone apps

The good reception of Office for iPad, with more than 40 million downloads and positive reviews like those of our Applesfera colleagues, it hasn't made Microsoft rest on its laurels. During the seven months since his departure, the people of Redmond have continued to work on the Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications for Apple tablets, completing a series of updates that see the light today.

But Microsoft hasn't just made iPad apps better. Accompanying the updates of the versions for tablets, the Office team has developed new versions of its tools optimized for iPhoneIn this way, smartphones with iOS as the operating system will have their own Word, Excel and Powerpoint applications.

Like the versions for iPad, Office applications for iPhone can now be downloaded from the App Store completely free of charge. And not only that, Microsoft has also eliminated the need for an Office 365 subscription to edit or store documents.

Office for Android Preview

Along with applications for iOS, Microsoft has been working on versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets for some time. These will not be available until early 2015, but that doesn't mean we have to wait until then to see first-hand how the core Office tools work on the green android system.

Starting today, Microsoft has launched a Office testing program for Android tablets Thanks to it, anyone you can apply to be selected and be allowed to test ahead of time what it will be like to work with the main tools of the office suite from the Google operating system.

Anyone who wants to access the Office for Android preview will have to sign up for the testing program through the form (in English) prepared by Microsoft for the occasion. It will also be necessary to meet some requirements: have a tablet between 7 and 10.1 inches, that it works with the KitKat version of Android and agree not to update it for a while.

Office for Windows with Windows 10

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To round off the day of announcements around its office suite, Microsoft has once again confirmed that, as with iOS and Android, there will be a version Office Touch for Windows. Internally referred to as Gemini>"

As confirmed today, Microsoft will distribute Office for Windows touch apps with Windows 10 That means there will be no Windows version 8.1 and we will have to wait for the final arrival of the new operating system during the first half of 2015. Only then will we be able to see the long-awaited Office with Metro/Modern UI style. Meanwhile you can see a preview from minute 3:41 of the following video shared by Redmond.

Via | Microsoft