Microsoft has added real-time co-authoring, offline capabilities and other enhancements. But many mobile users have already adopted alternatives.



From Informationweek:

Microsoft Office dominates traditional productivity workflows, in which workers sit together in an office, speaking face-to-face and typing away on keyboards attached to PCs. But a number of recent trends -- such as increased interest in mobile workforces, remote collaboration and stay-at-home employees -- have impacted the traditional model, prompting Microsoft and others to create new tools to connect a new breed of workers.

Among these tools, Microsoft's Web Apps, which offer browser-based versions of Office, have been modestly received. They have many uses, such as editing Office documents on iPads, which still lack native versions of the software. But the Web Apps have also required that users be connected to the Internet, limiting their utility as mobile solutions. They're also less fully featured than their desktop-installed equivalents.

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