I have still one office mac 2011 that i havent installed yet, recently i bought an ipad mini, is it possible to use the uninstall office mac to be used in my ipad instead then? The web version of MS Office is surprisingly good and provides a more pleasant experience using it on a chromebook than using Office for iPad on my 12.9 iPad Pro. Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email Link.

By • 8:01 pm, April 8, 2014 • All of the iPads Microsoft uses to test Office. Office for iPad hasn’t been in the App Store for very long, and it has already done surprisingly well. Microsoft recently bragged that Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote have been. Microsoft won’t say how many Office 365 subscriptions have been bought through its new apps. Anyone can download them for free to view documents, but the editing features have to be unlocked with an in-app purchase. The team behind Office for iPad took to Reddit today to answer questions about how the suite of apps was made, what took so long, and what’s planned for the future. Here are the five most interesting revelations.

Mac snow leopard torrent. Steve Ballmer gave the go-ahead to release Office for iPad. Newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella announced Office for iPad to the world, but Ballmer was the one that pulled the trigger. Microsoft took so getting it out the door so it could create the “highest possible quality Office experience.” Yeah, right.

Also, Steve Jobs was that “.” 3. Printing is coming in a future update.

There surprisingly wasn’t any drama from Apple when Office was submitted to the App Store. Apple takes a 30% cut of all Office 365 subscriptions purchased within the apps. That policy was rumored to be a point of contention within Microsoft and part of the reason for the delay. The code between Office for iPad and Mac is shared, and a big Mac update is coming soon.

When Apple expanded the iPad Pro's screen from 9.7-in. To 10.5-in., it simultaneously shrunk the pool of those who can run Microsoft's Office apps free of charge. Like the 12.9-in. IPad Pro introduced in late 2015, the resized iPad Pro gets dumped into the iOS Office apps' pay-to-use bucket. Microsoft relies on screen size to separate what it considers consumer-grade tablets from those it believes are business-suitable, with the line drawn at 10.1 inches. Owners of iOS devices with screens equal to or smaller than 10.1-in.

Are allowed to run the Office apps -- Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word -- for free as long as the resulting work is for 'non-commercial purposes.' In other words, not at work or for work. Devices with screens 10.1-in. Or larger -- like the new 10.5-in. IPad Pro -- can only view and print existing documents unless the user has an Office 365 subscription with 'mobile device rights,' according to the Word app's license agreement. [ To comment on this story, visit.

] To do more than that for a business purpose requires an Office 365 subscription. According to Microsoft's licensing, any use of any feature of any iOS Office app on any device -- whether iPhone, iPad or iPad Pro -- demands a small business- or enterprise-grade plan, like the $12.50-per-user-per-month Office 365 Business Premium or the $20-per-user-per-month Office 365 Enterprise E3. A consumer-grade Office 365 Personal ($70 annually) or Office 365 Home ($100) subscription is required to legally run an Office app on a 10.5-in. IPad Pro, but -- and here's the catch -- only for non-work purposes. [ ] Want to edit a work-related document in Word on the iPad Pro? A commercial Office 365 subscription is required. Want to view a work-related spreadsheet in Excel on the iPad Pro?

Show a PowerPoint slide on the job from the 10.5-in. [ Further reading: ] Although these licensing rules have been in place since November 2014, they still manage to confuse both end users -- consumers and business workers alike -- and some IT administrators. In the enterprise, license confusion can be especially harmful, as it becomes an opening for errors, primarily under-licensing, that can cost a company when Microsoft asks for an audit. They confuse because the 'freemium' strategy Microsoft has deployed for Office is vague.

Microsoft has repeatedly trumpeted the iOS Office app as 'free,' implying that that is so for everyone. When in reality it is true for a subset of customers: Consumers, and then only when they're looking at a screen that's 10.1-in. Conducting business-related work in an Office app always requires that the user be covered by an employer-purchased Office 365 subscription. That's an important point to hammer home to workers and managers at all levels, especially in bring-your-own-device (BYOD) situations or instances where some devices are not managed. It's possible that employees with a 10.5-in. IPad Pro will erroneously assume -- because of the 'free' Microsoft's bandied about -- that they can slide under the radar as they did with their previous 9.7-in.