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Of course, this licensing differentiation along with the product name also tells us that Office Mobile for iPhone is not a full-fledged Office suite. So does Apple get a cut? Microsoft isn’t sharing any specifics of its agreement with Apple, but they did tell me that they worked with Apple on the app and Office 365 sign-up experience. Microsoft is indeed offering users the ability to sign-up for Office 365 from within the app. Third, what about Apple? One of the supposed controversies during the build-up to this release was how or if Microsoft could get around Apple’s Draconian licensing requirements, where they get a 30 percent cut, not just of the app price, but of any product or service offered in the app.

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(Because Office Mobile for Windows Phone 8 is part of the OS, that won’t count against this limit.) Future Office Mobile products-for Android and iPad, presumably-will count against the mobile device limit, not the PC/Mac limit. So now there is a new category of mobile devices, where each Office 365 subscriber can also attach up to 5 Office Mobile installs to their account. Second, Office Mobile for iPhone does not count against your five PCs/Macs limit because it’s a mobile offering. (This includes all Office 365 versions: Home Premium, Small Business, Small Business Premium, and any of the Enterprise versions.) First, as noted previously, Office Mobile for iPhone requires an Office 365 subscription, so you’re already paying Microsoft. But as the name Office Mobile for iPhone suggests, this is more obvious than we may have imagined. One of the big questions we previously had about Office on iOS was how Microsoft would handle licensing. (You can also use it with SkyDrive and on-premises SharePoint, as with Office Mobile for Windows Phone.) To use Office Mobile for iPhone, you must have an Office 365 subscription. Office Mobile for Windows Phone does not require an Office 365 subscription and you can use it with SkyDrive or just with phone-based documents.

Windows Phone supports Microsoft’s Information Rights Management (IRM) technology, but Office Mobile for iPhone does not.

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OneNote is included as part of Office Mobile for Windows Phone 8, but you must separately find, download, and install OneNote for iPhone. Where Windows Phone presents a nice panoramic hub experience, Office Mobile for iPhone is more of a standard app presentation and doesn’t offer a Places view.

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Also, your Microsoft account’s SkyDrive account will be automatically configured in the Office hub on Windows Phone (as will your SkyDrive Pro space when you connect to an Office 365 account), but you have to manually add this on Office Mobile for iPhone. Then, you can open it in Office Mobile from there. On iPhone, Microsoft or the user cannot change the default behavior, so the built-in QuickLook viewer displays the document first. So, for example, when you open an Office document email attachment in the Mail app on Windows Phone, the appropriate Office Mobile app displays the document automatically. Office Mobile ships as part of Windows Phone 8 and is more deeply integrated with Microsoft’s mobile operating system. So before getting into the nitty-gritty of Office Mobile for iPhone, here’s a list of what’s different from the currently Windows Phone offering: And that’s because this product is almost identical to the Windows Phone 8 offering.

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Having recently written about Office Mobile for Windows Phone 8-please do check out my Office + OneNote chapter from Paul Thurrott’s Guide to Windows Phone 8 for the full feature rundown-I feel uniquely qualified to give you the best possible explanation of what you can and can’t do with Office Mobile for iPhone. Here’s what’s happening with Office Mobile for iPhoneĭifferences with Office Mobile on Windows Phone 8 The bad news? There’s no iPad (or Android) version, at least not yet-Microsoft isn’t talking, sorry-and users with those devices are currently being directed to the Office Web Apps, which I’m told are being updated regularly for iPad and Android tablets. The good news? It’s absolutely free to Office 365 subscribers, including both home and business versions.

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This isn’t a full-featured Office suite for portable devices, its Office Mobile, ported directly from Windows Phone to iPhone (and iPod touch). But with today’s release of Office Mobile for iPhone, we know. We’ve been discussing Office on iOS rumors for so long that we somehow forgot to step back and think about what such a product offering could be.