The Office apps offer usual functionality, so you can view and edit files, PowerPoint presentations, you can start from your Android phone and you can quickly access documents at any location, including services such as Google Drive, Dropbox or Box. The Office apps require a smartphone with 1GB RAM and Android 4.4 KitKat or later and replace the old Office Mobile apps, support for Android M is nonetheless not exist.
The Office apps for Android are free to use, but a number of additional features is an Office 365 membership required. In the future, the apps will be available on the standard devices of 30 manufacturers, including Samsung, LG, Sony and others. Many of these devices will later this year in sales
.
If you already own an Android smartphone, and it meets the system requirements above, you can download them now. In the Play Store, Word, Excel and PowerPoint available immediately.
According to Microsoft Office preview version for Android on more than 1,900 different phones installed in 83 different countries. The feedback from these testers is used not only to fix bugs, but Microsoft has also adjusted based on responses to the user interface and added new features. Office can thus for example to connect to third-party services such as Google Drive and Box, and it should be easier to navigate within the app.
The release of Office for Android shows that its software cross platform intends to use. In the past, virtually Office only available for Windows PCs, but now the software also works on the operating systems of the competition. The strategy seems Microsoft in any case be very successful, because in April the company announced that the iOS and Android apps have been downloaded together more than 100 million times
No comments:
Post a Comment