MS to offer Office free on mobiles
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Few golden geese in technology have survived as long as Office has for Microsoft.
The suite of applications that includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint,
first released in 1990, generated nearly a third of Microsoft's revenue
last fiscal -about $26 billion of $87 billion in total.
But in a sign of the seismic changes underway in the tech industry , Microsoft, the world's largest software company , said on Thursday that it would give away a comprehensive mobile edition of Office. The free software for iPads, iPhones and Android tablets will do most of the most essential things people normally do with the computer versions of the product.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft's new CEO, has pushed cloud and mobile computing as lodestars for the company's future.
While sales of the software to businesses grew about 8% last year, consumer revenue rose only 2%. Sales declined by double-digit percentage points during the first two quarters of the year.
But in a sign of the seismic changes underway in the tech industry , Microsoft, the world's largest software company , said on Thursday that it would give away a comprehensive mobile edition of Office. The free software for iPads, iPhones and Android tablets will do most of the most essential things people normally do with the computer versions of the product.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft's new CEO, has pushed cloud and mobile computing as lodestars for the company's future.
While sales of the software to businesses grew about 8% last year, consumer revenue rose only 2%. Sales declined by double-digit percentage points during the first two quarters of the year.
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