The functionality and main workflows are the same on each platform, however. There are slight differences in icon and toolbar placements to make the apps fit better in with the native experience of each platform. The apps don’t look or behave particularly iOS-like on iOS, Android-like on Android, nor Windows-like on Windows 10 Mobile. The apps offer a “familiar and consistent Office experience”, according to Microsoft. It also suggests that the apps were built on Windows technologies and later ported and adapted for the other platforms. This alone tells us a fair bit about where Microsoft’s priorities and optimization efforts have gone. Each app is around 430–450 MiB on iOS, 200–300 MiB on Android, and 100–150 MiB on Windows Mobile. Instead of the one-Office-app approach, users now download Excel, PowerPoint, and Word separately for each of their devices. It struggled with even saving files and had the worst document format support of any incarnation of Word. Office Mobile was Microsoft’s first attempt at bringing Office to devices and ended up doing everything poorly.
The “Office Mobile” app has been discontinued on all platforms. Out with “Office.app” – in with Office apps I threw WordPad 10 (built-in to Windows 10) into the mix as it also supports OpenDocument format as well as Open XML. Complex layouts and functionality, spreadsheets, and presentations were not tested.Īt a glance, it’s clear that Microsoft has streamlined their product naming and selection since last year. “Supported” in the above table means that a basic text document can be viewed, edited, and saved in Microsoft Word.
Document format support in Microsoft Word and its namesakes Product This time, I’ve also included Windows 10’s version of WordPad. Since then I’ve tested using the new Microsoft Office 365 for Windows and Mac OS X and Word apps for Windows 10 and 10 Mobile, iOS, and Android.
Quite a lot have happened since I wrote about document format support in Word last year.
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