{"id":67764,"date":"2014-06-03T23:43:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T21:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=67764"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:39:24","slug":"office-for-android-before-windows-8-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/office-for-android-before-windows-8-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Android to get touch-based Microsoft Office before Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Android tag\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> users will get a touch-based version of Microsoft Office before Windows 8, according to <strong>anonymous sources<\/strong> speaking to <em>ZDNet<\/em>. This isn&#8217;t a big surprising as Microsoft released <a title=\"Office for iPad announced that's free to view, pay to use\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/office-for-ipad-announced-thats-free-to-view-pay-to-use\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office for iPad<\/a> before finishing a version for its own tablet operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Mcirosoft CEO Satya Nadella explained why the company released an iPad version before a Windows 8 version.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;iPad has the most share. We are definitely going to have touch-first Office on Windows, and it is coming. But: &#8216;I didn\u2019t want us to hold back,'&#8221; said Nadella speaking with <a title=\"Ina Fried Recode\" href=\"https:\/\/recode.net\/2014\/05\/27\/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-at-the-code-conference-liveblog\/#liveblog-entry-45284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ina Fried<\/a> of <em>Re\/code<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While this is great news for Android users, early adopters of Windows 8 are left feeling betrayed. A touch version of Office for Windows 8 was expected to arrive fall of this year, but is now looking at a <strong>spring 2015<\/strong> launch.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"ZDNet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/touch-first-microsoft-office-for-android-to-beat-windows-8-version-to-market-7000030162\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ZDNet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/10-excel-formulas-for-pros\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 essential Excel formulas: become an Excel pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/sunrise-calendar-for-android-released\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunrise calendar app for Android helps you get things done<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/windows-8-1-with-bing-announced\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 8.1 with Bing coming to low cost devices<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android users will get a touch-based version of Microsoft Office before Windows 8, according to anonymous sources speaking to ZDNet. This isn&#8217;t a big surprising as Microsoft released Office for iPad before finishing a version for its own tablet operating system. Mcirosoft CEO Satya Nadella explained why the company released an iPad version before a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/office-for-android-before-windows-8-version\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rumor: Android to get touch-based Microsoft Office before Windows 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":62778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2564],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-67764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330652,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67764\/revisions\/330652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67764"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=67764"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=67764"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=67764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}