Microsoft Office Mobile 1.2.2
Microsoft Office has been around since many of you weren’t even born. It’s been the de facto productivity suite on most personal computers for most of its existence, but it has been expanded to other platforms like Mac OS X and iOS.
On iPhone, Microsoft offers Office Mobile with Word, Excel and Powerpoint support in a very simplified manner. It’s geared more towards viewing documents than actually creating and / or editing these documents.
Neat UI
The Microsoft Office Mobile app, believe it or not, does not have an iPad version. Its sleek UI is tailored only for small iPhone and iPod touch displays, and it begins with a cartoony presentation (in pictures), followed by the sign-in prompt. You get a trio of examples, and each one is editable. The only tools you’ll get are the file, open and view buttons at the top.
Microsoft Office Mobile is admittedly very nice looking. While it doesn’t necessarily borrow iOS graphics, it’s very much in line with Apple’s design direction. Hats off to Microsoft for actually making a software product that looks appealing on more than one platform.
Simple but reliable
Microsoft Office Mobile has to be the most stripped down version of Office in the entire App Store. Even third party knockoffs offer more options than this. Granted, it’s reliable and very usable for on-the-go viewing and editing of documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
You can make minor edits in each type of file, and PowerPoint presentations can even support swapping slides and editing their contents. Saving images is a drag, but saving documents is easy through OneNote, as well as locally. Sharing is also easy and just a few taps away.
Despite lacking numerous functions, the vital stuff is there and ready for using on the go. However, if you don’t have a Microsoft account, you can’t start using the app. You can’t create an account in the app either. You actually have to navigate away from Microsoft Office Mobile and into a web browser to sign up for a Microsoft account. How silly is that?
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Bottom Line
Design / UI9
Microsoft Office Mobile is nice looking and very much in line with Apple’s design direction. |
Function7
Despite lacking a lot of features, the vital stuff is there and ready for using on the go. |
Security7
It integrates with cloud services and it has a long Privacy Policy that you might be interested in reading. |
Battery9
Doesn’t exhibit any serious power consumption. |
Price9
Microsoft doesn’t charge a dime for this app. But they do require an account, so if you don’t have one, you need to create one. |
Compatibility8
Requires iOS 7 and is very well optimized for all versions of the iPhone and iPod touch. However, there’s no iPad version, if that’s even possible. (yet there are standalone iPad versions for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, introduced recently by Microsof |
A good document viewer before anything else
Specifications
- price:
- 100% Free
- current version:
- 1.2.2
- reviewed version:
- 1.2.2
- developer:
- Microsoft
- category:
- PRODUCTIVITY
- os version req.:
- 7.0
- age rating:
- 4+
- in-app purchases:
- No
- hits:
- 774