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Office has been downloaded 100 million times on iOS and Android

Under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft has transformed itself into a company that prioritizes cloud and mobile business above all else, and if you want evidence of this you need only look at one of the companies oldest and most successful products, Microsoft Office. Traditionally Windows-exclusive software, Microsoft has since brought Office over to Android and iOS, and according to yesterday’s financial reports, Office has seen more than 100 million downloads on these two platforms. 

Microsoft has gone from being a software firm, to a devices and services company, to one that’s now focused on ‘mobile first, cloud first’. From developing almost exclusively for Windows back in the day, the company is now fully embracing a cross-platform future, making more of its products as widely available as possible. Office is among the many products that Microsoft has brought to rival platforms over the last couple of years. Yesterday, after the company published its latest quarterly financial report, its CEO Satya Nadella revealed that Office has been pretty successful so far on iOS and Android, as Mobile World Live reports. “We are clearly taking Office everywhere,” he said. “Core to our mobile first strategy is to ensure that our service end points are on every mobile device, and to that end, we have seen continued momentum with more than 100 million downloads of Office on iPhones, iPads, and Android tablets.” Microsoft hasn’t given up on its own platforms and devices though. Nadella said that the launch of Windows 10 this summer “will usher in a new era of more personal computing.” But he also added that it will be “an era where the mobility of the experience, not the device, is paramount.”

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Sal McCloskey is a tech blogger in Los Angeles who (sadly) falls into the stereotype associated with nerds. Yes, he's a Star Trek fan and writes about it on Uberly. His glasses are thick and his allergies are thicker. Despite all that, he's (somehow) married to a beautiful woman and has 4 kids. Find him on Twitter or Facebook,

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