People who are addicted or dependent on editing Microsoft Office Documents will be happy to hear that according to a report from The Daily that Microsoft will be releasing an iOS app for Office Documents sometime in 2012.
With the iPad making up over 80 percent of the tablet market and millions of people worldwide using Office, that could mean big bucks for the tech giant based in Redmond, Wash.
From a Business perspective it makes sense for Microsoft to launch an iOS app, since the complete infrastructure is already created for them, and some users initially when they get their iPad or iPhone might buy it, somewhat out of conditioning over the years that a computer isn't a computer unless it edits Word Documents
Do you need Microsoft Office Document Editor on the iPhone or iPad?
Since the first iPhone release, some Microsoft Office Documents have been viewable but not editable on the device itself if received in an email (well, the documents that most people view: Word,Excel and Powerpoint) , and quickly after the launch a couple of companies developed apps that allowed the editing of Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents.
For many people, the lack of a specific Microsoft Office application has enabled them to think "out of the box" and start using services such as Google Docs for online collaboration, together with Apps such as Quick Office Pro for iPad which can open up files on Dropbox or Google Docs or Box.net which recently gave iPad users 50Gb of online storage for free.
Some have decided to leave the tedious editing of large Office Documents for the Work or home Office computer and rather remotely connect to it using LogmeIn Ignition to get access to the full power of their Apple OSX Desktop or Windows PC. (This by the way is a great resource if you need to download something large, while you are out an about)
Office for iPad coming in 2012
Devin Coldewey from Techcrunch wrote:The iPad hasn’t been much of a revenue stream for Microsoft, which has been focusing on developing its own competing tablet ecosystem. But as a software company, it can’t ignore the scores of millions of Apple devices out there for long. Sure, it has a few things in the App Store, but one of its biggest earners, Office, is entirely absent. The Daily reports that this is likely to change shortly, as Microsoft is planning to debut an iPad version of their productivity suite next year.
It would be a stripped-down version more in line with their mobile apps than the desktop ones. Users can, after all, easily view and make simple edits on a tablet machine, but heavy duty spreadsheet or slide work will still necessitate a desktop OS.
The price would likely be similar to that of Apple’s productivity apps: around $10, or at any rate in that vicinity. Price parity would be the ideal, but Microsoft may feel (perhaps rightly so) that its offering is worth more to enterprise users who have adopted the iPad informally as an email and calendar platform.
On the other hand, Microsoft doesn’t need the money so much as the platform presence, so a higher price seems unlikely. Preventing the leakage of users to Apple platforms is crucial in maintaining Microsoft’s dominance in the office apps arena.
Many have also commented that the timing for releasing an Official Microsoft Office App for iPad seems a little awkward since Microsoft will be putting its own native and "complete tablet solution" alongside Windows 8.
Pricing is still unknown,but lets hope it is a lot less than their desktop equivalent pricing.
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