Breaking News! Microsoft Office Goes Fully Free on iPhone and Android Phones
No more paid subscription required for document creation and basic editing. Along with the big news that Microsoft has launched Office on Appleās iPad , Microsoft has also made the iPhone and Android phone versions completely free. Microsoft available for iPhone and Android phones before, but you couldnāt create or edit documents without an Office 365 subscription, which starts at $7 per month. Now, all you need is a free Microsoft account. (Full editing on the new iPad version requires an Office 365 subscription.) The smartphone versions arenāt particularly robust. In Word, you can type, search, add comments and perform some basic font formatting, but thatās it. In Excel, you can search, filter and perform five simple mathematical functions. You can open existing PowerPoint files and edit slide text, but you canāt create new presentations. Still, it could be useful for light editing and note taking. Because all files save a...