Throw a virtual rock inside the App Store and you'll hit any number of titles touting support for venerable Microsoft Office documents, but all of them have one problem: They're not from the folks in Redmond. That situation has finally changed with the arrival of the poorly named Office Mobile for Office 365 Subscribers, a free mobile companion for Microsoft's productivity suite. While the app mostly performs as advertised, it has Achilles' heels on both feet: First, it's limited to users of the company’s $9.99-per-month Office 365 service, and second, it's only for the iPhone and iPod touch – at least for now.
While the former limitation shouldn't come as that much of a surprise, the latter is a bit of a head-scratcher, especially considering the number of leaked images in recent months showing the app running on an iPad. It's not hard to imagine this is premeditated on Microsoft's part – after all, Office runs just dandy on the company's competing Surface tablets.
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