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time | ZDNet  Microsoft covers its mobile Office bases with
Android, buys time  Summary: In the end, Microsoft Office Mobile
for Android and iPhone are nice hedges should Windows Phone and
Windows 8 fail to garner significant mobile share.   Microsoft's
launch of Office Mobile for Android just a few weeks after the
iPhone version illustrate how the software giant is gradually
coming around to the reality that it may not be the big dog on
post-PC platforms.  In the end, Microsoft Office Mobile for
Android and iPhone are nice hedges should Windows Phone and
Windows 8 fail to garner significant mobile share. Mary Jo Foley
noted that Microsoft has a roadmap for stronger core Office apps
for Android, iPhone and iPad, but appears to be giving those
products some time possibly for the Windows mobile ecosystem to
develop further.   The Android and iPhone versions of Office are
tethered to an Office 365 account and optimized for Word, Excel
and PowerPoint e