New CEO Microsoftu Satya Nadella announced today at a press conference what iPad users have been waiting for for almost 4 years. Microsoft will release the official versions of the apps today Word, Excel and PowerPoint for iPad tablets. While the app itself will be available for free to everyone, it will require a subscription Office 365. This subscription, which costs $99 per year, is part of the company's new business model, which gives users the ability to manage and use Office on 5 PCs or Macs and also get 20GB of bonus storage on the service OneDrive.
Word, Excel and PowerPoint will appear in the iTunes menu App Store already today at 20:00 our time. At the same time, the company published the first screenshot, on which we can see that the flat environment of the application Word fits very well with the operating system environment iOS 7, which it will likely require as the lowest supported version. The applications will be free to use for viewing and presenting saved documents, but if users want to use the application to create new documents and presentations, they will have to pay a subscription Office 365. The fact that part of the functions are charged is justified primarily by the fact that Microsoft is a software company and software sales make up the majority of its revenue, especially the division Windows a Office.
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*Source: MacRumors; winbeta
it was to be expected, quite a sick move, as a user office 2007, I saw no real reason at all to switch to office 2010 or 365, office I don't miss it on the ipad now, of course it will have use, but 99 dollars...
Hi, a bit of spam and a question at the same time :D. When we have accounts (login and password) assigned to the service by the school: office 365 in your browser. So is it possible to use this with these products and avoid the $99? PS: I mean the same thing with MAC, if it can be obtained for free Word,… with this account from school, at least for one year. Thank you very much for any advice.
if they want to compete keynote, pagesor numbers (which are now provided free of charge with new devices), so he should microsoft to offer a full-fledged office e.g. completely free during a one-day event. Too bad. $99 is excessive.
It is not full-fledged. office, can do no more than pages…And they want $99 for it??
Grizzlies:
by "full-featured" i meant full-featured for ipad (viewing, presentation + paid editing). By itself, it does not reach the quality of the desktop version.
Michal: I didn't respond to your post. Office I downloaded to iPad and it looks like it doesn't support Subscript & Superscript and that's the only thing Pages missing... Maybe MS will change the price list when they see the reviews :-)
Maybe the environment wouldn't go well with iOS7, when iOS7 was aligned according to Microsoftat :(