Microsoft Brings 'Office Mobile for Office 365 Subscribers' to iPhone

[G51989]

M$, you are PATHETIC!

Totally pathetic for making the best office software you can get...then making it cheaper

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$99 per year for 5 computers is a far cry less than buying the software as a package on a every two or three year cycle as Office tends to be released for those same 5 computers. At $99 a year you always have the latest version. When you do the math, yes you are locked into a subscription model, but at the end of the day if you're a heavy Office user that upgrades on the release curve it's cheaper.

Exactly, this.

If your a heavy user of office at home. Or your a business this is cheaper and keeps you up to date.

If you need it for school or you only need it short term it's great, as you can just stop paying when your done with it rather than wasting 200 dollars

 

[thefourthpope]

Just give me the 'straight' MS Office for iPad App, or even just Word. Some of us are not intertested in this cloud nonsense.

Yes. Internet access is a silly thing to rely on for creating content.

 

[brand]

Remember you can set your default search engine on both the iPhone and the Mac to Bing as I have done years ago.

The default search engine is not the same as the search engine that Siri will use.

 

[MrWillie]

For the year is $ 99.99.

For that much money you could buy the iWork suite for both your iPad and Mac, and never pay again.

What you would pay for 2.5 years is equal to the cost of Final Cut Pro X.

Also, consider the fact that you'll need to be connected to Skydrive, which requires an internet connection.

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The app store shows In-App purchase of a 1-Year subscription for $99.99

You also get to use it on 5 machines at one time, Mac or Windows, and now iPhone (Sorry, I tried editing spreadsheets on a PDA a few years ago, not cool. Give me a native iPad version.) when new versions come, they're yours. Also you don't need to be constantly connected.

Another sad ploy to entice subscription to 365...

How many corps actually use 365? Epic fail M$oft.

What facts do you base your epic fail on ? Or do you just think saying that makes you sound cool ?

Aw Man! Subscription models are the way things are going and that is such a bummer!!

Edit: Hopefully reactions at E3 will point the trend in a better direction.

Unlike Adobe's subscription model, MS' actually provides value for its' users.

They waited as long as they could. Unless you need this for business there are so many better and cheaper ways to deal with documents in ios. Microsoft is becoming increasingly irrelevant. The fact ios 7 will use bing as Siri's default search shows that Apple has moved on to much more powerful and relevant companies in their war room.

Subscription based software is incredibly unappealing. I don't buy in. I have no desire to pay monthly or yearly for things I may or may not use. I want to buy the tool and that is the end of the payment scheming.

Anything that requires constant internet connection is also a no-go - won't buy. Internet connections are not reliable.

First it doesn't require a constant Internet connection, Office is downloaded onto your computer, documents are saved onto your computer and may be synced with the cloud.

Second, MS Office is the de facto standard of communications in the business world. Yes there are other Office suites, but unless you keep thing really simple, they are not 100 % comparable. Type a document using the free open office, use bullets, then open in MS Word for example.

$99 a year for a family account is a great deal, if you're single, for $12 a month you can get office and an Exchange email account. Or add Exchange accounts at $4 each.

 

[MaulRx]

Office 365 sounds like a great deal for those who need it but I'm happy to stick with iWork. Even more so now that they have added the apps to iCloud.

 

[avanpelt]

Subscription based software is incredibly unappealing. I don't buy in. I have no desire to pay monthly or yearly for things I may or may not use. I want to buy the tool and that is the end of the payment scheming.

Anything that requires constant internet connection is also a no-go - won't buy. Internet connections are not reliable.

I haven't seen anything in the terms of an Office 365 subscription that says you can't cancel it. In a lot of ways, the subscription model is very appealing for software you're either not sure you're going to use or you're going to use a lot.

If you're not sure you're going to use it, just pay for a month and then cancel it. You're only out $10.00 as opposed to $200 or more if you went and bought Office off the shelf. If you decide you need to use the software again, activate your monthly subscription again when the time comes.

If you're going to be a regular user of the software, you keep paying as you're using and in return, you'll get always up-to-date software.

To your statement about internet connections being unreliable, I have to ask, where are you located in the world?

Here in the U.S., I can use my iPad or iPhone going down the highway at 70 MPH and still get 15-20 Mbps down over Verizon LTE. If you don't go for the absolute cheapest internet provider you can get, you should have a reliable connection. If you don't have a reliable connection, it's time to consider switching providers. We live in 2013, not 1997. . .reliable internet connections aren't difficult to find in many parts of the world these days.

Also, I don't think the Office 365 subscription requires that the internet connection be up every time you want to run the software. If it's like the other software subscription services, the software is physically on your device or machine and it only periodically "phones home" to make sure the device or machine is linked to an account that has an active subscription.

 

[GoodWatch]

Kind of funny how those buttons look like they're straight from iOS 7.

OK, I'll bite. What exactly do you mean with that?

 

[ReallyBigFeet]

Just checking....

Does the "In-App-Purchase" of $99.99 US/year now count as the single most expensive IAP in the entire App store?

Also, I guess we now know why Apple just announced iWork in iCloud earlier this week.

 

[ChrisTX]

In the meantime, tap on the 2x.

Not quite the same. But I guess if you were just dying to have MS Office on the iPad, that would have to suffice.

 

[Rogifan]

Hmm...can't see excel being very useful on a phone.

 

[floatingspirit]

right...

Or just go FREE with Google. Hmmm pay money OR go free... Hmmm...

 

[Mr.damien]

Bing is a Microsoft product.

Yep but the only reason of that is Google's behavior, not a product quality ...

 

[kahkityoong]

But I'm already happy using iWork for editing documents and presentations.

 

[David29]

?????

What a rip-off. What we want (or at least I do) is something that will allow me to edit Office 2003 or 2007 files.

I know of no one that takes Office 365 seriously.

Trusting data in the cloud is one thing, but trusting Microsoft with my data? No way.

 

[Bhatu]

Another advantage I see after watching this video - You can view Virus List 2012.xlsx on your iOS easily!

 

[batchtaster]

Office Mobile integrates with Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service

It integrates with Skydrive Pro, which is a rebranding of their corporate SharePoint service, and is completely different from the public/free Skydrive service. Buying extra space for Skydrive ≠ Skydrive Pro.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Editing Office documents on an iPhone is an epic fail IMHO. I mean being able to view them is one thing but trying to force users to edit them on a small screen is like trying to merge the Laptop into a Tablet... wait a minute. People don't even use iPhones with a bluetooth keyboard they way the would with an iPad. Why they didn't make this for iPad first is beyond me.

Is there ANY leadership at Microsoft or has it become a million monkeys in front of a million screens?

I've read several posts here in the past of people editing movies on the iPhone using iMovie, so why not a minor document change too?

 

[Krazy Bill]

I really wish they would have a stripped down and simple version of Office for us normal users so that we could put something simple together on our ipads.

Not while the MS-Surface exists.

Be nice if they'd release standalone products. 5 bucks each would be a fair price.

Herein lies the reason why iOS struggles in the serious Enterprise market. Most iPhone/iPad owners use the price of Angry Birds to benchmark what everything else should cost. Anything more is considered a rip-off.

For the year is $ 99.99. For that much money you could buy the iWork suite for both your iPad and Mac, and never pay again.

LOL! My boss would kick my ass to the street if I submitted my 2014 budget to him in "Numbers". (Which basically sucks anyway compared to Excel).

Here we go again with the, "Golly! Why not just get Pages and Numbers? It does it all guys!"

How many corps actually use 365? Epic fail M$oft.

A lot and growing. Considering those expenses are merely passed along to us in the end-price of products/services all corporations provide.

bring it to the iPad and I'll jump onboard with Office 365. as much as i like my iPhone, editing documents on it is not my idea of productivity.

Yes. It belongs on an iPad. Unfortunately… because MS decided to get into their own tablet biz I'd say this is unlikely. Until of course, some MS bean-counter determines otherwise.

His point is that this proves that Microsoft is no longer Apple's competitor; Google is. If Microsoft was a threat then Apple wouldn't be putting Bing into the iPhone as the default because they'd be worried about Microsoft getting too much power over them.

Most likely accurate. MS (I've heard) goes out of its way to stay out of litigation with Apple. They've licensed a lot of Apple's patents/technologies used in their Surface Tablet - don't even try to come up with their own.

 

[resonator]

$99 a year is very expensive for the ability to use Word

For a person who only uses MS Word occasionally, the idea of paying $99 a year to use the program is a quite expensive. I don't like the idea of subscription services especially for something like MS Office.

For big businesses this model may make sense. For the average home user it does not - unless they moved the decimal point over one and made it $9.99 a year.

I am not your typical Microsoft basher but I will pass on this and will never subscribe at that price or even half that price.

It appears the most feasible options at this point are Google documents or Apple's pages. I imagine this will probably push many people over to use Google's documents for the price of zero per year.

 

[Liquorpuki]

For the year is $ 99.99.

For that much money you could buy the iWork suite for both your iPad and Mac, and never pay again.

What you would pay for 2.5 years is equal to the cost of Final Cut Pro X.

Also, consider the fact that you'll need to be connected to Skydrive, which requires an internet connection.

You can work offline, it's not a web app. Only difference is it syncs to the cloud when you want it to and it's sub based.

And 365 gives you applications Apple doesn't even have an analogue for - Access, Publisher, OneNote. Plus 20GB of cloud storage

 

[subsonix]

Herein lies the reason why iOS struggles in the serious Enterprise market.

It doesn't.

 

[Liquorpuki]

It doesn't.

When it comes to Office Suite marketshare, iWork isn't even in the discussion.

The Office Suite market is basically MS with something like 90% marketshare for non-cloud software, and Office 365 and Google Docs battling it out for the cloud.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

The issue is not everything in word or excel transfers well with pages and numbers. There really is no great substitute for office, and that is what all businesses use.

Regardless of what I use to create a document, I always distribute it in PDF format. I don't deliver in a format others can modify it.

If I must use Excel, I'll use LogmeIn to connect to my Mac and use it.

 

[subsonix]

When it comes to Office Suite marketshare, iWork isn't even in the discussion.

Ok? But this is not what we are discussing.

The Office Suite market is basically MS with something like 90% marketshare for non-cloud software, and Office 365 and Google Docs battling it out for the cloud.

Office is widespread no doubt but it's also dull corporate bloatware.

 

[duervo]

Ballmer's iPhone Market Share Claim

Quote: "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."

Date: 6/29/2007

Hindsight is wonderful though, isn't it?

I don't fault Ballmer for saying that ... after all, it was clearly intended to placate MS investor's fears, and nothing more. In other words, he was doing his job as CEO of Microsoft. And really, can you expect the CEO of a company to actually admit publicly that a competitor's product is better? Hardly. If he did that, then I would agree, he should be fired.