Office for iPad hits 27 million downloads in 46 days

Himanshu Arora

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Microsoft is claiming that Office for iPad, which includes Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, has been downloaded a 27 million times from the App Store. That’s a massive figure considering the app has been out for just 46 days.

General manager of Microsoft's Office Division Julia White made the announcement yesterday during TechEd, the company's IT and enterprise-focused conference, in Houston.

Last month, a week after launch, the Redmond-based company tweeted that the app had been downloaded more than 12 million times. From the looks of it adoption -- or rather downloads -- aren't slowing down.

The download statistic only references free downloads because the company has not revealed details on how many paid iPad Office subscribers it has.

Office for iPad is not a free app for everyone, only for paid subscribers of Microsoft's cloud version of Office, Office 365, which costs about $100 a year.

According to a TechCrunch, Word for iPad is the most popular app of the bunch, currently ranked 11th in the US and among the top 100 in 109 countries. On the other hand, Google Docs, which was released shortly after Office for iPad, has dropped to 23rd in the US on iPad.

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Compared to office, Google Apps are pretty much a non-starter, but I think Google can take credit for one thing, it forced MS to act and let it cash cow be accessible to users across various platforms.
 
And probably 26 million uninstalls LMAO.
Why would you say that? Have you actually even used there office apps and online functions? You will find them superior in EVERY way to Google's advert infested half witted offerings. Many people seemed to agree as evidenced by there huge fall in rankings.
 
Kingsoft Office Free just works out the best. Word, Spread and Presentation. iOS is coming out soon but current Windows and Android users can get it for free. Does everything MS Office does but less impact on the system.
 
Kingsoft Office Free just works out the best. Word, Spread and Presentation. iOS is coming out soon but current Windows and Android users can get it for free. Does everything MS Office does but less impact on the system.
Use it on my Android phone. An excellent product.
 
Why would you say that? Have you actually even used there office apps and online functions? You will find them superior in EVERY way to Google's advert infested half witted offerings. Many people seemed to agree as evidenced by there huge fall in rankings.
Of course it has more functionality. But the majority of those installs were probably from people who thought the suite was 100% fee and didnt require a 365 subscription.
 
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