Sep 20

Google Makes QuickOffice Free For iOS, Android Users

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Google Makes QuickOffice Free For iOS, Android Users

Google unveiled its QuickOffice for iOS and Android devices along with Drive support last year, allowing those on the go to be able to create and edit documents until they’re blue in the face. Unfortunately, QuickOffice comes at a price as Google requires a subscription to its Google Apps services in order to use the application on supporting devices, but that changes today as the company is announcing it’s making QuickOffice available for free. (more…)

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    Sep 19

    Google makes its Quickoffice app free for both Android and iOS users

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    Google makes its Quickoffice app free for both Android and iOS users

    Less than two weeks after Apple decided to make iWork free for new iOS devices, Google went and did us one better: it’s offering its Quickoffice suite for free, to both Android and iOS users. If you recall, the apps have actually already been free to Google Apps subscribers, specifically, but now the offer applies to anyone, regardless of when they activated their device or what OS version they’re using. As an added incentive, if you sign in to your Google Account from the Quickoffice app by September 26, 2013, you get 10 gigs of extra storage space for two years. And that’s all there is to it. Hit up the source link for more details, if you need them, or else find the app on Google Play or the App Store.

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    Jun 28

    Chrome OS dev channel gains Quickoffice powers, lets users edit native Excel and Word files

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    Chrome OS dev channel gains Quickoffice powers, lets users edit native Excel and Word files

    Chrome OS hardware continues to proliferate, and on the software front, Google continues to add features to the platform in the hopes of persuading more folks to exit the traditional PC paradigm. Today marks a significant step in achieving that latter goal, as the dev channel of Chrome OS has received the ability to edit Excel and Word files thanks to Quickoffice integration. While it’s not ready for public consumption just yet, it shows that Google’s getting close to fulfilling its promise to deliver native doc editing to the Pixel and other Chromebooks.

    Should you be among those on the dev channel of Chrome OS, you can enable the functionality now by going to chrome://flags, enabling document editing and restarting your machine. According to developer François Beaufort — the man who discovered the functionality — editing’s still a glitchy process, but the more folks that use the feature now, the faster the problems can be found and fixed. The power of productivity is in your hands, people, so get cracking squashing those bugs!

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    Source: François Beaufort (Google+)

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    Feb 21

    Chromebook Pixel to have integrated Quickoffice, able to open docs natively

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    Chromebook Pixel to have integrated Quick Office, able to open docs natively

    While the Chromebook Pixel has that pretty display for looking at pictures and browsing the web, many users would probably still want to use the laptop for, like, actual work. Thankfully the Chrome team has thought of that and have developed an integrated version of Quickoffice so that you can finally open and edit office documents natively within the Chrome browser. The final app will take two to three months to ship, but that office functionality will be built-in with the Pixel (update: we’ve clarified this statement below). Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, said at the Chromebook Pixel event in San Francisco that this “completes the story for a lot of users” who want something a little more beyond just Google Docs. We’ve also learned that while the Quickoffice integration will be available initially for the Pixel, it’ll eventually roll out to other Chromebooks as well via a software update.

    Update: To clarify, we’ve learned that all Pixels will ship with Quickoffice already installed. You’ll be able to open and view documents on it as soon as you get it. However, the ability to actually edit those docs won’t be available until two to three months down the line as they’re still working on perfecting the app (the demo they had at the event failed a couple of times).

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