Microsoft Prepping Office For iPad, Android Tablets.

      A new report indicates that Microsoft's workplace suite are heading to Apple's iPad and Android tablets later this year.Boy Genius Report (BGR) reported that it's a "reliable source" who said Microsoft plans to launch workplace apps for iOS and Android tablets in November.
workplace might also be coming back to the iPhone and iPod bit, in line with BGR, because the app's loading screen apparently said "Office for iOS" not only for iPad.
      The new data corroborates a report from The Daily earlier this year that workplace is headed to the iPad. The Daily reported in February that the workplace for iPad app was complete and would soon be submitted to Apple for App Store approval.The app's interface was said to be like that of OneNote, Microsoft's note-taking app, that received iPad support in December. The Daily said it conjointly has allusions to Metro, the planning customary that seems in Windows Phone and therefore the forthcoming Windows eight operating system. in line with the report, the workplace app permits you to edit and build Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files domestically and on-line.
    "Our supply has seen Microsoft workplace running on an iPad first-hand and has said that it's virtually a dead ringer for the previous leak from The Daily a number of months back, despite the very fact that Microsoft all out denied that the app was authentic," BRG reported.A Microsoft spokesperson failed to immediately answer letter of invitation for comment from PCMag on Thursday. The Redmond, Wash.-based computing large told the the big apple Times back in February that The Daily story was "based on inaccurate rumors and speculation."Microsoft plans to unleash following version of its operating system, Windows 8, later this year, however has not nevertheless finalized a launch date.
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