April 27, 2024

Office for iOS is free , a preview for Android

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Microsoft promised new and was served. The Redmond giant yesterday unveiled new versions of its Office applications for iPhone and iPad. Above all, they are now completely free. As before, to edit or modify a document in Word , Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote , you had a subscription to Office 365 , only reading was free. Now, this subscription is not needed.

Under iPad, the born last March and since downloaded over 40 million times Office applications evolve to incorporate this free and compatible with Dropbox to open , edit and save documents from this storage online . The interface has been slightly revised to fit perfectly on the screen of the tablet or smartphone … . For each application of the suite, with the exception of OneNote is also available for iPhone. Again, the work focused on the correct adjustment of the image on the screen.

At the same time , Microsoft also introduced Office for Android, which , however, remains in beta . A preview test version is available for subscribers from December and provided you have a tablet between 7 and 10 inches running version 4.4 KitKat ‘s mobile operating system from Google. The release of the final version is expected for the beginning of the year 2015. (EP)