Microsoft Office for iPad: over 27 million downloads on the App Store

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Upon its release in late March, Microsoft Office applications for iPad already accumulated more than 27 million downloads, and that only in the top 10 markets. This has been assured Julia White, director general of the Office division, during its keynote at the TechEd conference in Houston.

J. White has not offered any data on the percentage of conversion of these free downloads from current users with a subscription of Office 365, which may help us to see things with a little more perspective on the success of an initiative that Microsoft was reluctant to launch.

On the one hand this mark reached in 46 days, on the other hand reflects an understandable slowdown downloads when compared to the first 12 million downloads achieved just one week after its release in the App Store when permeating the top of the ranking free downloads. 

Since then, word has remained in the United States a remarkable fourth place while Excel and PowerPoint have fallen up to the number 18 and 23 respectively.

Google divides his Drive in separate applications for iOS

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Google has given us the month-end surprise yesterday launching Documents and Sheets, two separate apps, to manage text documents and spreadsheets stored in Google Drive. An application for each file type: like Apple with iWork and Microsoft with Office for iPad.

There is not a simple separation: each of these applications will have the ability to create and edit documents without an internet connection, with a very clean interface,  focused only on those files. If we want to see the rest of data we have stored in Google Drive, follow its official application available for it. 

The presentation application will "coming soon" to complete the circle office automation. So we have three trios iOS applications face to face: 

• Pages / Word / Documents
• Numbers / Excel / Sheets
• Keynote / PowerPoint / Presentations. 

The battle has begun. 

These two new Google apps are completely free, and you can download for iPhone and iPad from the App Store.

Here's Excel to iPad

And now the end of this mini-especially now that I have brought from Appleismo, the full Office suite for the iPad. I have spoken of Word, PowerPoint and now Excel one of the most powerful spreadsheets that exists in the market. 

Will the same happen in the iPad? We will see.

Excel for the iPad has many virtues and of course, some other defect. First of all I would like to note that the Office suite for iPad is perhaps not directed to the general public. Obviously, anyone who wants to can pay a subscription, but the real target is anyone who needs the office suite programs for labor or ecosystem studies. For everyone else there are free options that we have already discussed.

The application is completely designed from scratch to run on the iPad, and it shows. Just pull it asks us that we connect to our Office 365 account Where do we: 

• Access to both our account OneDrive to see all documents stored on it, or the ability to view documents that we charged through iTunes. 

• We may also choose to store our documents, whether in the cloud or physically in our iPad.

• We can set up more accounts OneDrive besides personal. If we had a different to our Office 365 account, business space we can also access documents stored on it. 

• Default templates you can access different styles, create a new or use an already made​​.