Microsoft Word has been downloaded and installed more than 1 billion times on Google Play Store. The company’s other Office apps are not lagging behind.
Spreadsheet app Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and OneDrive each have more than 500 million installs, while email client Outlook for Android has more than 100 million installs.
Last month, Bill Gates noted in an interview that his “greatest mistake ever” was missing out on the mobile OS world, noting that there’s only space for one competitor for iOS and that it should have been “a natural thing for Microsoft to win.”
But, while Microsoft’s mobile efforts have never reached the success of its competitors, its mobile versions of Microsoft Office still enjoy a significant amount of market penetration, much like their desktop counterparts.
Microsoft released its Office apps for Android phones back in 2015, making them free to use for all users. There are still many free-to-use third-party productivity suites on the Google Play Store, including Google’s own Docs (with 500 million-plus installs of its own, and the same pre-install caveats applied), Sheets and Slides apps.
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