Microsoft's Hub Keyboard Gives You One-touch Access To All Your Office Content

Microsoft’s Hub Keyboard gives you one-touch access to all your Office content

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Published 24 Feb 2016

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Microsoft is really into keyboards these days. Shortly after scooping up SwiftKey, the company has just launched a new offering—the Hub Keyboard for Android.

It’s designed to connect more deeply to your Office 365 content showcase some of Microsoft’s language learning capabilities. For example, when you sign into your Microsoft account (it only works with work, school, or university accounts for now) you’ll be able to search for attach files stored in OneDrive.

Even if you don’t have an eligible account, you can use the keyboard to translate what you type into another language search through your phone’s contacts. The keyboard is still in preview mode, so it’s bound to have bugs missing features (the most annoying is that there’s no autocorrect). The interface is also rather plain, without any extra themes or customization options.

If you have a compatible account want to try it out, grab Hub Keyboard from the ay Store.

y this matters: Microsoft’s newfound religion of cross-platform productivity is really paying off. Microsoft Garage in particular keeps cranking out a string of Android apps, like the recently updated Next ck Screen. Expect this keyboard SwiftKey to eventually join forces in some way, so Microsoft can offer more language smarts to Android other platforms.