After years of speculation about when it would finally happen, Microsoft is releasing a version of Office for Apple's iOS today. And it's free...sort of.
I got a brief peek at the Office suite app running on an iPhone this week, and we will be downloading the app from Apple's iTunes store as soon as it's available for a full review. But from my brief preview, it's clear that this may not be exactly what some Office users were waiting for. That's because of two very big caveats about Office for iOS: it requires a subscription license of Office through Office 365, and it's optimized specifically for iPhone (sorry, iPad). The iWork team at Apple can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
But if you've already bought into Microsoft's vision for Office in the cloud and have subscriptions to Office 365 Home Premium, ProPlus, or an Office 365 Enterprise license that includes the Office desktop suite, then the new iPhone app is still a big bonus. It doesn't take up one of the 5 device license slots that a full copy on a PC does, and it provides most of the functionality of Office Mobile apps on Windows Phone 8.
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I got a brief peek at the Office suite app running on an iPhone this week, and we will be downloading the app from Apple's iTunes store as soon as it's available for a full review. But from my brief preview, it's clear that this may not be exactly what some Office users were waiting for. That's because of two very big caveats about Office for iOS: it requires a subscription license of Office through Office 365, and it's optimized specifically for iPhone (sorry, iPad). The iWork team at Apple can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
But if you've already bought into Microsoft's vision for Office in the cloud and have subscriptions to Office 365 Home Premium, ProPlus, or an Office 365 Enterprise license that includes the Office desktop suite, then the new iPhone app is still a big bonus. It doesn't take up one of the 5 device license slots that a full copy on a PC does, and it provides most of the functionality of Office Mobile apps on Windows Phone 8.
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