Word, Excel and PowerPoint come to the iPhone

The applications of Word, Excel and PowerPoint are now available to users of iPhone with version from iOS 7.0 or higher. This has been announced by the company, who has also updated the version of Office for iPad. We can find them in the App Store encompassed under Office Mobile.

Microsoft ad Office for iPad last March. Since then, more than 40 million times it has been downloaded from the App Store, according to Microsoft on its official blog.

During these months, work has also been done on the native applications of OneNote, Lync, Yammer, OneDrive for Business and OWA for iOS and Android, continuing with research and developments on the platform Mac, with the development of Outlook for Mac and Office for Mac in beta, which is expected to be available throughout the first half of 2015.

Microsoft advances that its strategy is to reach all platforms with its suite of Office. On the one hand, the version of Office for iPhone and, on the other, it has renewed the apps of Office for iPad. For tablet users AndroidThere is also good news and that is that the preview version of the suite is already available and the final version is expected to arrive early next year.

The only pending subject Microsoft is the version for phones Android that will undoubtedly end up arriving.

These are the details of the announcement:

• New apps from Office for iPhone for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that now offer the same experience as in the iPad, but optimized for iPhone. Customers can download the new applications today.

• Updating of Office apps for iPad. Today you can download the new apps from Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Both the version for iPhone as for iPad, require to have installed iOS 7.0 or more current versions

Preview of applications of Office for Android tablets. For the first time, customers using tablets with this operating system can enjoy the productivity tools Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

The most striking thing is that unlike the subscription service model office 365, the clients of iPhone, iPad and Android can create and edit content in Office without any subscription. Now almost everyone, regardless of the device they have, and whatever platform they use, can carry out their tasks under the suite of Office.

Although no details for now, the company has announced a Office optimized for touch devices with Windows 10. It is expected to arrive early next year.