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Microsoft Office for Android Phones Released

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 25 2015, @10:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-the-productivity-begin dept.

takyon writes:

Do you have the desire to run PowerPoint on your Android smartphone? Good news:

Five weeks ago, we announced the Office for Android phone preview. We are so grateful to our preview users, and with their help we were able to test the apps on over 1,900 different Android phone models in 83 countries. During the preview, we heard from thousands of these users, and over the last few weeks we were able to incorporate a lot of their feedback into the apps we're launching today. For example, we made it easier to connect to other popular third-party storage offerings like Google Drive and Box, as well as many usability adjustments to make it easier to navigate commands within the apps.

You can download the Word for Android, Excel for Android and PowerPoint for Android apps from the Google Play store beginning today. We hope you enjoy using them as much as we enjoyed making them.

At AnandTech and The Register.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:26PM (#201292)

    LibreOffice for Android [documentfoundation.org]

    We're currently developing two products on the Android platform:
      * The LibreOffice suite, currently provided as LibreOffice Viewer for Android [BETA]
      * The LibreOffice Impress Remote for Android

    Cost now: $0
    Cost when the production-worthy release becomes available: $0
    License: GPL (Source code available: Devs can't hide NSA-friendly backdoors)

    If you would like to speed up the development process by using the pre-release versions and reporting bugs, there are Beta builds and Daily builds. [documentfoundation.org]

    Production-worthy release:

    Coming soon!

    -- gewg_

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:29PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:29PM (#201295) Journal

    Now one just have to convince coworkers and students to use it and not be hooked into everybody else uses Microshit and it's free!..

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @01:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @01:10AM (#201326)

      My colleagues use MS Word. I'd like to use the very nice Libre Office suite, bu my Libre Write track changes are not readable by MS Word, and there MS track changes are not readable by Libre Office.

      Track changes are very important to my colleagues and I.

      • (Score: 2) by kadal on Friday June 26 2015, @01:57AM

        by kadal (4731) on Friday June 26 2015, @01:57AM (#201344)

        I've had successful interactions with teach changes on libreoffice and Microsoft office. Use the latest version of libreoffice?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @03:06AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @03:06AM (#201366)

          Does it have clippy?