Microsoft Corp. MSFT on Thursday
announced several new and updated applications and services including
Microsoft Office for iPad and free Office Mobile apps for iPhone and Android
phones. Microsoft also announced the Enterprise Mobility Suite, a
comprehensive set of cloud services to help businesses manage corporate data
and services on the devices people use at work and at home. In addition, the
company announced the upcoming availability of Microsoft Azure Active
Directory Premium and enhancements to Windows Intune.
"Microsoft is focused on delivering the cloud for everyone, on every device.
It's a unique approach that centers on people — enabling the devices you love,
work with the services you love, and in a way that works for IT and
developers," said Satya Nadella, chief executive officer for Microsoft.
Starting Thursday, Office 365 subscribers can simply add an iPad as one of
their chosen devices included in their subscription benefits, and can create
and edit documents with Word for iPad, PowerPoint for iPad and Excel for iPad.
These apps are available as free downloads from the App Store, enabling people
to read and present documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Office for iPad
brings full file fidelity across Office on PC, Mac, tablet and phone, and
along with cloud storage from OneDrive or OneDrive for Business your files are
up to date, wherever you need them on whatever device you want to use. Office
for iPad apps have a familiar look and feel that are unmistakably Office but
are built from the ground up for iPad, factoring in the unique nature of touch
and functionality native to iPad along with what people most commonly want to
do on a tablet. More detail on today's announcements can be found in the
Office blog.
Office 365 is Microsoft's fastest-growing commercial product ever, with
increasing popularity of the subscription service among consumers because of
the ability to move between devices, share subscription benefits with
household members with an Office 365 Home subscription, and have constant
access to important Office documents online. In addition to Office for iPad
announced on Thursday, Microsoft also offers other iPad-optimized productivity
applications, including OneNote, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics AX, Bing, Lync,
Outlook Web Access, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Yammer and Skype.
Comprehensive services to help IT embrace bring your own device and the move
to software as a service
Customers continue to use more devices and services, and IT needs an
integrated and economical way to manage it all. The new Microsoft Enterprise
Mobility Suite (EMS) provides comprehensive device, identity and access
management with data protection from the cloud. EMS includes Windows Intune,
Azure Active Directory Premium and Azure Rights Management Services, to give
IT the tools they need to help protect corporate assets and enable people to
work on the devices they love.
The new Azure Active Directory Premium delivers cloud-based identity and
access management with single sign-on to over 1,000 popular software as a
service (SaaS) applications, self-service tools for users, and
machine-learning-driven security reporting and anomaly detection. With Azure
Active Directory Premium customers can reduce their IT costs and more easily
manage their users, groups and SaaS application access.
Microsoft also announced additional enhancements to Windows Intune, including
support for the Samsung KNOX platform, Remote to My PC capability for Android
and iOS devices, and support for the next update to Windows Phone, continuing
Microsoft's commitment to cloud-first mobile device management across all
devices.
Availability
Microsoft Office for iPad is available Thursday in 29 languages. The apps
require an iPad running iOS 7.0 or later. More information about Microsoft
Office for iPad can be found on the Office blog. The new Windows Intune
features and Azure Active Directory Premium will be available in April, and
the Enterprise Mobility Suite will be available via Microsoft Volume Licensing
channels on May 1. More information about these new enterprise mobility
solutions is available at Microsoft's In the Cloud blog.
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