Microsoft noted that iPad users had downloaded 27 million copies of Office for iPad, though that figure isn't new. Office will work on competing platforms, but "the best Office mobile experience is on Windows and Windows Phone 8.1," Turner said. "Office is cross platform," Microsoft COO Kevin Turner said. And you can run Office on the iPad, with Android and Windows Touch versions coming soon (see below). You can run Office Mobile on Windows Phone, iPhone and Android. You can run Office Online on a Chromebook. He may as well have just said that Microsoft was an Office company and that it would push Office hard in both mobile devices and the cloud.
We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more." At Microsoft, Office is the key to, and the core component of, its productivity efforts. In his open letter to employees last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, "At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. With a productivity focus, Office is key. Since it debuted in fiscal year 2009, Office 365 has experienced triple digit growth every year. And 60 percent of the Fortune 500 have purchased Office 365 in the past 12 months alone. But this year it's $2.5 billion at mid-year and still growing rapidly. Last year, Office 365 was a $1 billion business for Microsoft, a key milestone.
While Microsoft didn't supply new Office 365 user base statistics, it noted that it is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft's history. There are over 1 billion active users of Office, making it one of the most popular software platforms on earth. Here, I'll focus just on the Office bits, which of course includes Office 365. If you haven't yet, you can check out my overview of the opening WPC keynote in WPC 2014: Microsoft Has a "Challenger Mentality" in Mobile First, Cloud First World. And with the firm's new focus on productivity, Office is in fact the linchpin of Microsoft's go-forward strategy.
But Office is even more central to Microsoft's future than is perhaps immediately obvious. As a product line that has already made a successful move from the PC desktop to the cloud and various popular mobile devices, it's perhaps not surprising that Office played a big role in the opening day keynote of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference.
0 kommentar(er)
