We've known for
months that Microsoft was bringing a version of Microsoft Office 2013 to
Android tablets and Apple's iPad family. Now, according to the Czech tech news
site, IHNED, Microsoft product manager Petr Bobek has said that Microsoft is
planning to release native iOS and Android versions of Office 2013 in the first
quarter of 2013
Bobek, a Microsoft
Office portfolio manager in the Czech
Republic, said that these new versions of
Office will be available to larger companies and Microsoft partners In December
2012. Small-office/home-office (SOHO) and
household users will have to wait until at least February. The online version
of Office 365 edition for mobile devices and tablets will appear in early 2013.
In an e-mail, the
author of the INHED story clarified that the release would be after March 2013.
"We had a slight miscommunication with the MS guys and the timeline for
Office for iOS and Android is not a March release, but release sometime after
March."
Officially, the only
thing Microsoft had to say at first was that "As we shared previously,
Office Mobile will work across Windows Phones, Android phones and iOS, and we
have nothing additional to announce today about retail availability of the new
Office."
Later the same day,
Microsoft's head of corporate communications, Frank X. Shaw, denied the whole
story. Shaw tweeted, "The information shared by our Czech Republic
subsidiary is not accurate. We have nothing further to share."
No matter when
Microsoft delivers the Android and iOS goods, Microsoft's support of any
version of Office on a non-Windows smartphone or tablet strikes me as an odd
move.…Read
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