Google attacks Microsoft Office: Quickoffice for free

The productivity suite Quickoffice for Android and iOS is now available free to all users with a Google account.
In June 2012, Google acquired the editor Quickoffice and productivity suite for mobile. The latter then became free for iOS and Android, but only for subscribers Google Apps for Business. She was charged if between 15 and 20 euros depending on a Pro or Pro HD version.

Today, Google makes free Quickoffice for everyone , that allAndroid users and iOS owners a simple Google account. And attract even more people, Google says that by September 26, a user connects to the Google account from the new Quickoffice app will be entitled to 10 GB of additional storage space on Google Drive for two years.

This is a real attack on the part of Google that meets the availability of Office Mobile for Android smartphones and the iPhone . Except that if the Office Mobile application is free, it requires a 365 and therefore a paid subscription account Office. Also remember that Apple has responded to the arrival of Microsoft making free productivity applications iWork iOS devices with newly purchased.

Quickoffice is an application for smartphones but also tablets Android and iOS that allows you to view, edit and create Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) files. It is also possible to view and annotate PDF files, create folders. Zip, see graphs in Excel and PowerPoint files.

The application is integrated with Google Drive to store and access files regardless of the device with which the user logs on. His interest in relation to the features of Office Drive Office is processing files without going through a tedious phase of conversion for editing.