Microsoft Office Mobile for Android is now free

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Published 27 Mar 2014

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It was almost a footnote in Microsoft’s big reveal of Office for id today, but the ione Android version of Office Mobile is now free. eviously, these phone-focused apps required an Office 365 subscription. But with a new mobile platform to exploit, Microsoft has decided to allow us to view, edit, create Office documents on our Android phones without shelling out for a subscription.

So if you have a need for native rd, Excel, werint editing on your phone, hop over to the ay Store grab it. Note that this version of Office is optimized for phones, not tablets, so it’s not quite as capable as the new Office for id. Still, you can’t beat the price, right?