Not one with full functionality, of course, but the news is still good: starting November 6, iOS users of Microsoft Corporation mobile Office suite won’t need an Office 365 subscription to edit their documents in the cloud, Tom’s Guide writes. Each part of the Office suite now functions as a standalone app, that are capable of Dropbox integration for cloud storage. Android users will have to wait for the same changes to be made until early 2015. As all things free on the internet – with a few exceptions, of course – this also comes with a price. The functionality of the apps will be reduced, and certain features will only be available with an Office 365 subscription. For example, free users won’t be able to add columns or use custom tables, while in Word changing the document’s orientation from portrait to landscape will also be a premium service (this one surprises me…).
The new Office apps for the iPhone have been modified in order to behave better on a smaller screen. The new Reflow feature included in them allows users to re-arrange text and images in a document to better fit their phone display, while the voice dictation feature will allow users to create texts by dictating to their iPhone. The new interface is clean and simple, as you would expect it to be, and the app is easy to use and navigate.
Office 365 subscriptions are not what I would call over-expensive. The cheapest plan costs $6.99 a month, and it comes with a fully functional suite of apps, a desktop version and 1 terabyte of OneDrive cloud storage. while the next tier costs $9.99, and includes five desktop licenses, fully functional mobile apps and 1 terabyte of cloud storage for up to five users.