Other analysts, including Bob O’Donnell at IDC, have said the same without naming a number, claiming that Microsoft could “start printing money” the moment it introduced Office for iOS and Android. Ironically, the Morgan Stanley analyst who asked DelBene about Office on iOS was Adam Holt, who last week drew attention for estimating that Microsoft was leaving $2.5 billion in annual revenue on the table by not porting the suite to the iPad. If you look at where they were as far as browser in 5.0 versus 6.0, there’s been a lot of changes there to make those apps work super well on a touch device.”īut DelBene refused to be drawn into details of a logical next step, selling native iOS apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. “We have enhanced the Web applications pretty substantially, particularly in partnership with Apple. “We’ve actually done a lot of work on iOS devices this time around,” argued DelBene.

Instead, DelBene touted the few existing apps for Apple’s iPad and iPhone, including OneNote, and talked up the online versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, which are free to use but accessible only through a browser. “We look very much at what is the experience that we’re looking to have on those devices.” “We don’t take it from the point of view of, ‘Do we need to have the PC software that’s running on a PC running on every single device?'” said DelBene. On Wednesday, Kurt DelBene, the president of the Office division, sidestepped a question about his iOS plans during a Morgan Stanley-hosted technology conference Talk of Microsoft porting its Office franchise to iOS - or at least the most popular applications in the bundle, like Word, Excel and PowerPoint - has swirled for years. Microsoft’s top Office executive yesterday dodged questions about plans to bring its lucrative suite to Apple’s iPad.

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