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1. #Do i need two subscriptions for office 365 on mac and ipad software#
2. #Do i need two subscriptions for office 365 on mac and ipad Pc#

We’ve been obviously working on this for a while. The reason it took so long to bring Office to the iPad, according to Microsoft’s boss, is their desire to do it right and tailor the app to Apple’s tablet and iOS 7, he told reporters at Microsoft’s San Francisco event on Thursday:

#Do i need two subscriptions for office 365 on mac and ipad Pc#

The subscription fee is $9.99-per-month, or $99.99 per year, for a Home Premium package that includes unlimited access to the Office applications for Windows, Mac and mobile. A more affordable Office 365 Personal tier costing $6.99 per month ($69.99 per year) is coming soon, though it’ll limit your Office usage to a single PC or Mac desktop, plus one tablet. Office for iPad joins an incredible lineup of productivity apps like iWork, Evernote and Paper by FiftyThree, that users can choose from to inspire them to do more with this powerful device.Īn Office 365 subscription is required to edit and create documents on the iPad.Īpple is featuring Office for iPad in the App Store. iPad has defined a new category of mobile computing and productivity and transformed the way the world works. We’re excited that Office is coming to iPad - now part of the more than 500,000 apps designed specifically for iPad. The iPhone maker also issued the following statement regarding Office for iPad’s arrival. You’ll remember how the two firms locked horns over in-app purchases in Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud storage client for the iPhone and iPad.Īs Apple didn’t relent, Microsoft eventually removed the option to purchase additional storage within the app rather than agree to share 30 percent of that revenue with Apple (Dropbpox doesn’t have such religious issues, however). The newsworthiness of this stems from the fact that Microsoft’s actually agreed to Apple’s terms, even more so knowing Apple’s 30 percent cut has been the sticking point for some other developers and publishers on the App Store. Microsoft is simply abiding to the same revenue sharing rules regarding In-App Purchases all of Apple’s registered iOS developers do. Microsoft declined to comment on the matter. Indeed, Microsoft does offer Office 365 subscriptions within the just-released Word for iPad and the other Office apps and, yes, it is paying the 30 percent cut, Apple confirmed to Re/code.

#Do i need two subscriptions for office 365 on mac and ipad software#

So, why are these powerful Silicon Valley executives droning politely on to each other, do you think? And how come Cook is promoting Office for iPad even though the software competes squarely with Apple’s own iWork suite, free with iDevice purchases?Ĭould it be because folks at Cupertino are getting their standard 30 percent cut on Office 365 subscriptions sold within the app…Īs first discovered by Re/code, Microsoft chose to sell Office 365 subscriptions to Office for iPad users via Apple’s in-app purchase mechanism and hand over 30 percent of that revenue to Apple. Redmond couldn’t have wished for a better endorsement than this! Returning the favor, Microsoft’s newly installed chief executive Satya Nadella took to Twitter to thank Cook, saying he was “excited to bring the magic of Office to iPad customers”. Following today’s long expected release of the Office for iPad applications, Apple’s boss Tim Cook issued a nice tweet welcoming Word, Excel and PowerPoint into the App Store.