Michal Marek After a week in the App Store, Microsoft's Office tablet office suite celebrates an impressive 12 million downloads. This number includes the total downloads of all three apps included in the bundle (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), as well as downloads of the stand-alone note-taking app OneNote for iPad. However, it has been established in the App Store for a long time and does not distort the resulting number in any way.
There was a lot of media hype surrounding the release of Office to the App Store, and given that Microsoft's new apps are really successful, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint immediately took the top spots in the App Store rankings. Office for iPad welcomed Apple CEO Tim Cook himself was on the Twitter social network, and Microsoft's new top man, Satya Nadella, also took care of the promotion. The new office suite is promoted with a large banner directly on the main page of the App Store, and its arrival on the most widespread tablet has also occupied the front pages of all technology-oriented magazines.
As has been announced many times, the applications are free to download and allow viewing of documents. An annual subscription to Office 365 is required for editing and full use of all tools. In connection with the release of Office for iPad, the pricing policy for Microsoft Office Mobile has been changed. This limited edition Word, Excel and PowerPoint app for iPhone is now completely free – no subscription required. The previously mentioned note-taking application OneNote for iPad also received an update, which finally got a new interface compatible with iOS 7 and, of course, with the new Office suite.
We recently they wondered if he was a little late with Office in Redmond after all. The competition is strong and Microsoft office applications on iOS can already be replaced by other quality alternatives. But for now, the market shows that Office is still in demand and remains the industry standard. However, the question is how many people will end up using Office on the iPad to its full potential with an Office 365 subscription.
It is a pity that it is not possible to find out how many times the application is subsequently uninstalled from the device. A lot of people just take a look, find that they don't write anything, don't save anything offline, and go back to iWork/GoogleDocs/Polaris, etc. An interesting piece of information would be how many new Office 365 registrations were made through the AppStore.
But the coin has two sides. For Apple, it's profits from margins. For Microsoft, these are just numbers that unfortunately come with a cross after funus. Office comes at a time when the competition already has its place. And even with a pricing policy that will harm rather than attract potential customers. Many users just installed the app anyway, reviewed it and uninstalled it again in case something changed in the future.
Well, most people who use the new office did not buy it because of the iPad and therefore have already paid for the subscription, so no profits for apple. Well, he deleted the rest of the application again :)
the question is, what % of the 12 million people downloaded office only in the free version and how many people paid for the subscription :)
I wonder how many millions deleted it right away, like me, for example... :(
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I don't understand why you installed when the first sentence of the description says you need a subscription and below that is how much it costs.
after the 5th unsuccessful installation, I won't even try again
But that will probably be the fault of Apple and its system.
After downloading Office for ipad and finding out that the subscription costs 99 USD for a year, I found out that it is a bad joke from M$, I immediately uninstalled it. I have iWork.
According to reports on the internet, office 365 is the best selling office. Of course, in the corporate area, but households accounted for more than a quarter of purchased licenses last year, and the number is increasing. For a family, the subscription is very affordable compared to upgrading once every 4 years.
:-D That's like saying that today's rolls are the best-selling rolls on the market, while yesterday's rolls aren't as popular anymore, and the older ones aren't sold practically at all. :D
So the office will have some standard annual sales and the mentioned numbers are based on them. So there is interest in the new office.
Information about nothing at all. Well, it shows that there is still interest in Office, but it does not show how well this solution has met the expectations of all those interested. Why wouldn't everyone who has the option download these apps when it's free? However, I don't personally know anyone, nor have I heard of anyone using Office 365. On any platform. And to claim that this subscription is beneficial for the family, only a complete fool can do. Despite the fact that the family does not need to upgrade Office-type applications every 4 years. Why lie to yourself about something like that.
I think that the large number of people interested in this kind of SW finally got something and now they found out that they probably won't get anything anymore. So they have no choice but to put up with it and finally learn to live without office applications from Microsoft. Apple will only profit from it.
Of course you are right. Nowadays, offices are not primarily intended for households, as simple programs such as iWork or libre office are more than enough for ordinary users. They are sufficiently compatible with office for this type of user.
But it's a shame. I think that Microsoft should try to get such software into every home so that they simply have no reason to think about anything else. Just make it an easily accessible standard. Which it may have been until now, only that availability was achieved on a large scale through piracy. With Office 365, they are trying to break it down, but unfortunately only on the piracy side, not on the availability side. Apple will immediately offer it for free.
It's a shame that iWork on iOS is still so limited. In short, I can't do enough with it, it can't do a number of basic functions.
Yes, I agree with you here, but you have to take it to the west of us, where the $100 for 5 licenses per year is not that much money. Well, those who don't have it will find a replacement or get it "somewhere" and use iwork on the iPad. Office is the standard primarily because you won't find other such high-quality software for the commercial sphere.
Sure, let it cost $100 for the commercial sphere and for one license, but for home use it should be significantly less. Regardless of the fact that I take the 5 licenses as a gimmick - it's tied to one account, which I consider to be one person - I also don't share the iCloud account with anyone. So I don't buy the five license scam - I reckon I won't get 5 serial numbers to use at will after paying.
So for companies, the 5 licenses will cost $750 per year, so I think the discount is quite big. One account buys and manages it, but four other accounts can use it, with each account benefiting from more storage.
The app is good, but you can't print from it :-((
But it works. Just not directly, but through another application. And I believe that since it's the most common complaint, they'll fix it soon
Here it is necessary to look at it from an economic point of view... I would say that non-corporate customers with iPads are quite stolen from Microsoft. This is not worth it for them, but they should get a Surface, right ;-)? This is done purely for the sake of companies, because there are so many iPads in that area that MS can no longer afford to ignore it... Companies need a functional Office even on the road... For non-corporate customers, it is relaxed just to say the least ;-)
Perhaps in the future they will reconsider the subscription-only model. The question is who wants to use Microsoft software. Another question is who has to. The first pays, the second is "paid", e.g. by the employer.
It's interesting how Apple updated iWork after Office for iPad was released.
I personally think that I will probably use both.
1) Keynote-PowerPoint
For example, with Keynote, I like the possibility of controlling the presentation with an iPhone. The good thing about PowerPoint is that editing, for example, of text or the size of internal grouped objects in the presentation works, which Keynote cannot do. The iOS version of PowerPoint cannot insert links, unlike Keynote
2) Numbers-Excel
I like the way you enter formulas in Numbers, but I might miss adding filters unlike Excel
3) Pages-Word
Pages are probably the least usable for me, Word clearly leads there. Absolutely tragic compatibility with Word. He was unable to convert even basic Czech fonts
God forbid you want to open a document with a table of contents, header and footer
4) Notes-OneNote
OneNote clearly leads here, I also tried Evernote, but somehow OneNote, even with the desktop version, probably has no competition.
Finally
The iWork package came to me as the best release of Office for iPad, I tried a lot of others but it was just a waste of money
We've been waiting for this for years, and a proper document writing app on the iPad is still nowhere to be found. When will Microsoft finally arrive with some "normal" Word? I'm not going to be a beta tester in this project of theirs for an outrageous 2500 CZK per year - I haven't tried it, but I don't believe that the application is really worth such a knapsack. It is enough that the created documents cannot be printed from it. Who knows what he can't do yet.
Does anyone have a tip for an iPad application that can be used to create at least basic but correct looking text documents? Among other things, of course, I am waiting for the possibility of inserting fixed spaces after short prepositions, because I would be ashamed to go anywhere with a document that looks like this article, regardless of the fact that they would return it to me for redoing anyway. I don't want that much, just block-aligned text, set the offset of the first line to 1,25 and mainly use fixed spaces where they should be. Unfortunately, I can't do without these trivial little things. Anyone have a tip? If Microsoft had released Word adapted for the iPad for, say, $20, but this? This is simply a mockery.
Dear Ozi, you speak from the heart, but there is probably nothing like this on the iPad. Really - your 20k iPad still can't write and print the kind of document (absolutely basic in my opinion) that you require. And I'm sad about it. And I'm not going to spend 2500 ducks to try that creation from Mrkvosoft either.