Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free on Mobile
The majority of the power of Office is only available on the desktop: COM, automation and integration.<p>This isn't a total give away, this is a loss leader which is just selling an editing front end for the files, not anything like the power of the full product.<p>However, I really think that Office on the desktop is a turd but it does make automation pretty easy but slightly awkward and painful. Perhaps this is bitterness from converting VSTO and Word interop to late binding all morning but I'm not a fan.<p>This is "meh" even to someone as embedded into the ecosystem like myself.