Hell hath frozen over, or welcome to the Satya Nadella Era at Microsoft. The much anticipated and long rumoured Microsoft Office for iPad will be coming to the Apple App Store at around 2 PM Eastern time today. Office for iPad is a trio of apps that bring Word, PowerPoint and Excel to tablets. You'll be able to open documents for free but should be an Office 365 subscriber to edit and save documents, good deal for exising Office 365 subscribers.
“We’ve been obviously working on this for a while,” newly minted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told reporters. “The thing we wanted to get most right was the combination of what I would call the combination of the app, the enterprise architecture, the developer APIs and then marry it with the device and what you expect from the device… It’s not just a trivial thing, lets port Word for Windows to a particular device.”
It must be noted that Office for iPad isn't a simulacrum of Office on iPhone, but an entire experience designed around the iPad's dimensions and capabilities.
We'll have a full review of this once we've had a chance to use it in our day-to-day work it but in the meantime we can all celebrate this huge software release. Welcome to the Post PC era folks.