Want to put Microsoft Office’s programs in an iOS or Android apparatus? Soon you will not need to download individual variations of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to utilize them. In a statement from the Ignite summit in Orlando on Monday, Microsoft shown that it is starting to publicly examine a new variant of this Office program that will unite the 3 popular programs into a single primary, centralized Office program. In the brand new program — which will be available today as a public preview on Android or as a beta through Apple’s iOS Test Flight program — you’ll be able to create new documents, presentations or spreadsheets as well as edit and view existing documents. You’ll also be able to “snap a picture of a document” and make it into an editable Word file, create and sign PDFs or “transform tables from a printed page into an Excel spreadsheet.”Microsoft’s individual apps have been popular mobile. All three rank in the top 25 productivity programs on iOS’ Top Charts for the category, while each app has been downloaded over 1 billion times on Android. Google, however, has been providing strong competition to Microsoft on cellular, with the Docs, Slides and Sheets apps from its G Suite set of productivity tools all ranking higher on iOS. Despite this, Microsoft’s Office 365 productivity tools take the overall lead across devices, according to a 2018 report from cloud security firm Bitglass: In 2016, Office 365 had more than twice as many deployments as G Suite at the business realm, at 56% compared to 25%. Microsoft says the new Office mobile app will not be replacing the existing three individual programs. “We understand some users may Only Have to utilize one of those programs, and it is the Customer’s option to set up the program that best matches their requirements,” a company spokesperson tells The Techy Trends. “However, should you take advantage of all the core programs, we advocate using this brand new Office program, as it implies you just should install 1 program – and it is going to really consume less space.”The Office app combination for iOS and Android follows Microsoft’s release of the new Office app for Windows 10 in February, which offers access to all the Office productivity apps in one window. The public, general release for the new Office app will take place in the “first half of next year.”
