As a small business owner, there's a good chance you'll need to work on documents such as reports and letters on the go from your iPad. If you prefer using the Microsoft Word document format, you can ...

There are many voice recording apps, and there are many transcription services. However, the Microsoft Word mobile app combines these two capabilities in one place, saving you time, effort, and—if you ...

Update: Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Office app for Android and iOS that combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single go-to app for mobile productivity. It is now available now in public ...

Microsoft today launched Office for Android and iOS in general availability. The unified app means you no longer need to download, install, and switch between the individual Word, Excel, and ...

The new Word for iOS, which offers basic editing functions for free, makes it to the No. 2 spot among free apps in Apple's App Store in less than a day. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps.

With excellent timing for citation in Microsoft’s lawsuit against Apple over the latter’s App Store trademark, the American Dialect Society has just declared the word “app” their word of the year.

The tech giant adds a new feature to the web version of Microsoft Word allowing people to record and upload audio for transcription. Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Most of us have more apps than we need on our phones, so I’ve always been a little annoyed that reading Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents requires separate apps – even if I’ll only ever ...