Microsoft finally unveiled Office for iPad

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    Executive director of the company, Satya Nadella, today, on March 27, at a conference in San Francisco announced the release of MS Office for iPad. “Microsoft wants people to be productive using any device,” he said. The release of the office suite marked an important step by the software giant towards mobile devices, which will allow it to keep up with the mobile technology race.

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    Microsoft general manager Julia White said that at 11 a.m. PST on Thursday (7 p.m. Moscow time?), The key Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint programs will be available on the App Store for the iPad. Microsoft's popular email application, Outlook, is not in the list of available programs. All the applications presented are free, but in the free version you can only view documents. To create and edit you will have to pay $ 7 per month. Office 365 subscribers do not need to make additional purchases to get all the features.

    Judging by the demo, the application interface is well optimized for the iPad:

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    This announcement marked the company's departure from the policy that dominated it when it was managed by Steve Ballmer, and most software was exclusive to the Windows platform only.

    Will it help breathe new life into Microsoft? We will live - see, survive, find out.
    In the meantime, the giant's shares fell slightly in price - MSFT -0.42 (-1.07%)

    Update 1: Applications are already available in the Russian App Store.
    Update 2: A great overview of the programs from the presented office suite on PCWorld in English.

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