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According to The Daily, Microsoft would have the project in 2012 to distribute a version of the iPad Office suite through the App Store. The site believes that the editor of Windows would consider pricing similar to that used by Apple for its desktop applications dedicated to the iPad (Pages, Numbers or Keynote), with a price that was around 10 dollars a software.
In the absence of details, which bring credit to this rumor?
Microsoft has already begun to decline some of its software and online services in the form of iPhone and iPad (see OneNote for example). The Mac is also the only Windows platform out to have a dedicated version of the Office suite. The publisher is not a priori reluctant to offer its products on a competitive environment.
To the extent that the iPad is, depending on the market, from 60 to 80% of sales of tablets, it seems logical that Microsoft does not want to miss out on this population of potential users. Remains to be seen what form will really its proposal on the land: is it really relevant to market for a few dollars a full version of a suite of applications that is now one of its main sources of income, including in business? The answer is probably not.
However, Microsoft is currently engaged in the promotion of Office 365, an online version of its pay and productivity tools for collaboration that would find a perfect extension on the shelves of Apple, and would be a good way to attract or retain customers. In short, business forward?
The Daily also believes that a new Office for Mac could emerge in 2012. An interesting hypothesis, but leaves a little wary: Microsoft has in fact used to encourage the development of the Windows version of its sequel, before the decline in Mac OS, usually a year later. Now the publisher is currently expected on the floor next Office Windows (code-named Office 15), the first beta version is expected to emerge in early 2012.
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