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This is because of the impending LibreOffice for Android. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Android https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Android

segmondy 11y ago
I highly doubt that. Microsoft has been embracing a lot of things lately. Moving towards Open source and open platforms. I don't believe it has anything to do with LibreOffice but everything to do with change in their attitude.
- pmontra 11y ago
  I'd say that competition prompted that change of attitude. LibreOffice is part of it. We've been raised with Word and Excel, then we discovered that LO and GoogleDocs were enough in the vast majority of cases and Windows was not necessary. Microsoft could be late with going were people moved to. Not too late, but they can count they money they didn't get.
  - quanticle 11y ago
    To say that LibreOffice was anything more than a very marginal part of Microsoft's decision to refocus is laughable. The real threat to Microsoft is the movement towards BYOD for corporate customers. If users are bringing their own devices, then Office has to work on whatever devices those users have. Corporate customers aren't switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. They're switching from Microsoft Office to Google Apps, or other hosted systems. Bringing (a better) Office experience to Android is Microsoft building a bulwark against Google Docs, not LibreOffice.
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cwyers 11y ago
If for no other reason, I doubt that because Office for iOS came first, and there's no impending LibreOffice for iOS. (I doubt it for a lot of other reasons as well.)
bitmapbrother 11y ago
No, they suddenly had the epiphany that in order to stay relevant on mobile they had to release their office suite for free on it or suddenly become irrelevant on the biggest mobile platform.

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This is because of the impending LibreOffice for Android. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Android https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Android

by davidgerard 11y ago

segmondy 11y ago
I highly doubt that. Microsoft has been embracing a lot of things lately. Moving towards Open source and open platforms. I don't believe it has anything to do with LibreOffice but everything to do with change in their attitude.
- pmontra 11y ago
  I'd say that competition prompted that change of attitude. LibreOffice is part of it. We've been raised with Word and Excel, then we discovered that LO and GoogleDocs were enough in the vast majority of cases and Windows was not necessary. Microsoft could be late with going were people moved to. Not too late, but they can count they money they didn't get.
  - quanticle 11y ago
    To say that LibreOffice was anything more than a very marginal part of Microsoft's decision to refocus is laughable. The real threat to Microsoft is the movement towards BYOD for corporate customers. If users are bringing their own devices, then Office has to work on whatever devices those users have. Corporate customers aren't switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. They're switching from Microsoft Office to Google Apps, or other hosted systems. Bringing (a better) Office experience to Android is Microsoft building a bulwark against Google Docs, not LibreOffice.
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cwyers 11y ago
If for no other reason, I doubt that because Office for iOS came first, and there's no impending LibreOffice for iOS. (I doubt it for a lot of other reasons as well.)
bitmapbrother 11y ago
No, they suddenly had the epiphany that in order to stay relevant on mobile they had to release their office suite for free on it or suddenly become irrelevant on the biggest mobile platform.