The suite will be available in the App Store later today

By Juan Carlos PerezIDG News Service - Microsoft has finally developed a version of Office for the iPad, a move many feel comes too late.

The company made the announcement at a press conference in San Francisco that was webcast Thursday and hosted by Satya Nadella, Microsoft's newly appointed CEO.

http://www.computerworld.com/common/images/site/features/2014/03/CEO.jpgMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella talks about the company's strategy for Office for iPad.A Microsoft official demonstrated Excel, Word and PowerPoint working natively on an iPad and said the suite would be available later Thursday at the Apple App Store.

The decision brings together two of the world's most massively popular personal computing products: the ubiquitous and dominant Office productivity suite and the iPad, which Apple first released in 2010, igniting a tablet revolution.

 

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