A few weeks after releasing Office for iPhone, Microsoft today announced the launch of Office for Android. Any smartphone running version 4.0 or higher would be able to install the Office app. It brings Word, PowerPoint and Excel though there’s a little caveat. Microsoft isn’t offering a standalone version that one can purchase, the app itself is free, but users will require a Microsoft Office 365 subscription in order to view and edit their documents, presentations and sheets.
Given that the editing functionality on this app is very basic, its meant to be used so as to make corrections on the go. One can’t expect to create full fledged documents and presentations through this app. Microsoft hasn’t revealed its plans for an Android tablet version of the app, it recommends using Office Web Apps on tablets. Documents will be stored in SkyDrive and they can be shared via e-mail through the app. The only noticeable different when compared to Office for iPhone is that this app doesn’t lets users purchase Office 365 subscriptions, so you’ll need to get a subscription in advance before being able to use Office for Android.
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With cloud computing being a mainstay productivity solution for many of us these days, Microsoft has every intention to attract more students to jump over to their subscription-based Office 365 software, and what better way to do so than to put up a brand new promotion which will offer them up to half a year’s worth of free access? Yes sir, for $79.99, Office 365 University will come with a four-year, cloud-based subscription to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access, in addition to 20GB of online storage over SkyDrive, not to mention 60 minutes of Skype calls each month.
Here is a wee bit of news that folks in China, the world’s most populous country, would find interesting if they happen to be users of Microsoft products, especially Microsoft Windows Azure and Office 365. It seems that Microsoft’s cloud service is headed in that direction without any of the torrential rains associated with it, although the Chinese offerings will be under the supervision of 21Vianet, a data center services company that is based in China. Microsoft took the route of licensing their technology instead of serving it up themselves, meaning the service will be subject to Chinese law instead of U.S. law.
