

Other Office editions could be on the beta slate, too, including one for OS X, which hasn't seen a new suite since October 2010. One likely candidate: a set of touch apps for Android. That customers could sign up for possible inclusionin a new Office beta Microsoft had site trouble today but promised Android tablets far outnumber those powered by Windows 8 or 8.1, although most experts believe that relatively few of the former are used for productivity tasks. That would fit with current-CEO Satya Nadella's constant repetition of "cloud first, mobile first" as the description of Microsoft's strategy. However, no one at Microsoft has publicly shared a release timeline for either edition.īecause Microsoft launched Office for iPad in March - contrary to expectations that it would follow a touch-centric version for Windows 8 - it's possible that Redmond will ship apps for Android before those for its own OS.
