With a new free app, Microsoft is making its office software suitable for the small screens and as easy to use as we have always wanted it to be.
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Old wine in new bottles – or finally an app from Microsoft that is geared towards user needs?
At first glance, the new Office app is nothing more than old wine in new bottles: it opens and processes Word, Excel and Powerpoint files – just as it is possible with the mobile apps that have been around for a while twenty years there. A brief look at history: Microsoft introduced Office Mobile in April 2000, at that time for its own handheld operating system Windows CE. Variants for the iPhone were added in 2010, and Android for 2013.
