Microsoft’s cross-platform app technique has his a brand new milestone, with the Microsoft Word for Android app hitting a billion installs on that working system.
Word is the lead Office app on Android and hit half a billion installs in May 2018. With round 2 billion Android telephones in use, meaning round half of all Android telephones include the appliance. With just one.5 billion Windows machines in use, this means there might quickly be extra Word customers on Android than on the desktop (and this will likely already be the case if iOS customers are included.)
Microsoft has, after all, benefitted from offers to pre-install the software program on Samsung and different telephones, however that may not be the entire story, because the app has a 4.5/5 ranking within the Android retailer, suggesting various of the three.5 million individuals who rated it discovered it helpful.
We have beforehand instructed Microsoft is constructing a raft of purposes which floats on the platforms of different working techniques, particularly Android, and plenty of have stated Microsoft has sufficient parts to construct their very own model of Android, powered by Microsoft Launcher, Edge for Android and Cortana, with the principle lacking bit being an app retailer.
Given Microsoft’s actual success on Google’s platform, do our readers see any level in Microsoft making its personal Android cellphone? Let us know beneath.
