SourceCode: Microsoft Office finally comes to Android smartphones

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Microsoft Office is the one of the first software programs users install on their PCs and Macs. Since smartphones are the closest thing to pocket computers, there have been countless substitutes for Word, Excel and PowerPoint available for Android and iOS devices but most don't come close to the original, or fail to integrate seamlessly with the desktop and cloud version of Microsoft's bread and butter suite.

Microsoft Office is now available on Android for free if you have an existing Office 365 account but it is only for smartphones and not for tablets where it would be far more useful.

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Breaking: MS Office comes to iPhone but 365 subscription is required and nothing for iPad

The much awaited Microsoft Office app has finally come to the iPhone but with caveats.  Users need to have an Office 365 account in order to use it, and there's no version for Apple's iPad, which is the mobile device that would most benefit from having MS Office running natively.

The reason for this could be that Microsoft Office is the key differentiator of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet which is an iPad competitor and which has the only version of MS Office on any mobile tablet. Giving the iPad a version of MS Office would instanly bring it one step closer to its post-PC aspirations but that might mean even less Surface RT sales for Microsoft. 

Microsoft launches Office 365 for businesses and enterprise

“With Office 365, everyone from large enterprises to small businesses to individual consumers can now benefit from the power of Office and the connectivity of the cloud,” said Jason Brommet, Group Manager of Office, Microsoft Canada (right)

Weeks after releasing the new cloud-focused Microsoft Office 365 for consumers, Microsoft launched their software suite for businesses and enterprise at an event in downtown Toronto this morning. This is a major new update to its Microsoft Office 365 services for business and further pushes the office solutions to the clodu as Software as a Service. The new Office 365 service is available today in 87 markets and 20 languages and an additional 20 markets and 16 languages in the second quarter of this year.

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Microsoft's Office 365 launched today in downtown Toronto

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Microsoft Canada erected a huge white dome in the middle of Yonge and Dundas Square in downtown Toronto today to serve as the Microsoft Office 365 launching pad today as it intorduced the new cloud-focused version of the world's most popular integrated software suite.

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