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Rumor: Android to get touch-based Microsoft Office before Windows 8
- June 3, 2014
- Updated: July 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Android users will get a touch-based version of Microsoft Office before Windows 8, according to anonymous sources speaking to ZDNet. This isn’t a big surprising as Microsoft released Office for iPad before finishing a version for its own tablet operating system.
Mcirosoft CEO Satya Nadella explained why the company released an iPad version before a Windows 8 version.
“iPad has the most share. We are definitely going to have touch-first Office on Windows, and it is coming. But: ‘I didn’t want us to hold back,'” said Nadella speaking with Ina Fried of Re/code.
While this is great news for Android users, early adopters of Windows 8 are left feeling betrayed. A touch version of Office for Windows 8 was expected to arrive fall of this year, but is now looking at a spring 2015 launch.
Source: ZDNet
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