Will MS ever bring Office to Honeycomb?

[Complex Pants]

Just curious what you all think. I think there is an outside chance that MS might do it to further establish themselves as the market default on desktops/laptops and mobile.

 

[STEMALO]

Office 365 is the only way

 

[Complex Pants]

Office 365 is the only way

What is office 365?

 

[freeky1]

What is office 365?

Really?

www.microsoft.com/office365


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[Bigum1969]

Nope. I don't think so. It's not available for the iPad even with its massive user base.

 

[Suntan]

I don?t see Office as we know it ever coming to android.

1) MS believes all you (and me) android users are just a bunch of freeloading pirates that just want to steal their software.

2) MS wants payment in the form of hundreds of dollars for Office, android market shoppers are used to seeing prices in the hundreds of pennies max.

3) If MS did try anything on android, it would be some half-arsed ?cloud? initiative that they would then abandon 16 months later.

-Suntan

 

[Vudumedic]

The best we can hope for is that open decides to port to Android and then we could have a compatible set of programs.

 

[Jonno]

I'm okay using QuickOffice Pro for MS documents.

 

[slwerner]

Just curious what you all think. I think there is an outside chance that MS might do it to further establish themselves as the market default on desktops/laptops and mobile.

With the prospect of Windows & tablets still floating around, why would they want to cut into their own potential market?

Besides, Office has gotten HUGE (in terms of the size of the programs and libraries). Programs like Documents To Go are quite small in comparison, and thus are both more affordable, and more logical choices for use on smart phones and tablets. And, while certainly lacking in overall functionality, they are still quite useful for basic uses - composition and data entry, for example (I make extensive use of these myself).

I also suspect that most tablet users (of which ever OS) are still going to have a regular computer on which they can run Office (or Open Office) to better format the document that they might create using their tablets.

If there is ever to be more traditional office suite functionality extended to tablets, I'd imagine it will more likely come not from a large integrated suite, but from a collection of specifically targeted programs which can read/write the common file format. I'd like a app for the creating of charts for spreadsheet data. But, as I typically use a PC to do this, I would be willing to spend only a limited amount to also be able to do the same work on my Xoom.

Where Microsoft could potentially make inroads would be to make their OfficeLive/SkyDrive cloud available to the available Android Tablet apps, making the use of their Office suite on a PC or Mac a more logical choice for the "finishing" of documents created on ones Tablet.

 

[Taygen Cross]

If Microsoft still hasn't jumped onboard with an operating system designed for tablets then I hold no hope of MS working on porting into android. But with that aside I would love to see an app with the intuitiveness of Pages for iPad although I think Quick Office Pro. IMO

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[Complex Pants]

In my mind the only real barrier to MS making apps for android is Windows 8 and their hopes for a tablet design. Android is rapidly expanding and I am guessing will become the dominant mobile platform. I am also guessing by looking at the Transformer and the way I use my Xoom that netbooks are going to fade away. I would even wager that low end laptops are going to disappear because of the utility that these tablets have. As netbooks and laptops sell less, MS loses money because fewer copies of windows are sold.

It would make some sense to me that they might release a mobile version of Office to still capitalize on these sales. MS isn't completely stupid and I doubt they would charge several hundred for a office suite on honeycomb, but would you pay $30? I probably would. It also wouldn't hurt MS to stay a bit more relevant these days.

 

[Complex Pants]

http://m.bgr.com/2011/05/27/android-makes-microsoft-more-money-than-windows-phone/

Microsoft could stand to make a lot of money releasing Office on android.

 

[Andromaniac]

Guys, take a rest from MS software. There are great apps for android to view and edit your documents. I use OfficeSuite Pro. Works fast.

 

[Smokexz]

I don't see what is wrong with Google Docs or Quickoffice. Also, I doubt Microsoft would ever bring that to Android or iOS or even Web OS, they have a mobile OS too, Windows 8 is on the horizon and it seems like they will tale a more tablet friendly approach this time. Also they still have Windows Phone 7, which as of right now is no where near complete enough to compete with Apple or Google. Maybe in the future they might integrate Microsoft Office on their tablets and Windows Phone 7, but don't hold your breath for anything coming to Android or iOS( especially iOS).

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