[Swordmaker]

Microsoft Makes Word, Excel and PowerPoint free on iPhones and iPads, Android to follow soon. Has Hell frozen over while pigs are taking wing? — PING!

Apple iOS and Microsoft Office AppsPing!

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[montag813]

Google Docs is getting to them in Redmond

[circlecity]

I’m very glad to hear this. However, I don’t know if this would make me use the Word app over the MS Onenote app. Onenote for ipad is a very good, feature rich text editer. If it let you handwrite in it with a stylus (like most ipad note taking apps do) it would be perfect. But I do look forward to playing with the unlocked version of Word on the Ipad. Good move, Bill.

[trebb]

Open Office and a few others are starting to look better and better.

[dennisw]

In contrast Taylor Swift removed all her albums that were streaming free on Spodify. She has a new album out that she wants people to buy

Spodify was paying her next to nothing to stream her music

So is Apple paying Microsoft a royalty to allow Office for free on iPads???