Microsoft Word for Android has been installed over 1 billion times

Microsoft recently hit an in particular super milestone: it’s Android edition of Microsoft Word has handed the 1 billion mark for installs, consistent with the Google Play Store (through Android Police).

The business enterprise’s different Office apps are also doing quite nicely. Spreadsheet app Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and OneDrive each have greater than 500 million installs, whilst email patron Outlook for Android has greater than a hundred million installs. Android Police factors out that these figures aren’t always downloads from Google’s Play Store, noting that Microsoft has some agreements with some producers to preinstall its apps on diverse devices.

The milestone is likewise a bit ironic. Last month, Bill Gates cited in an interview that his “greatest mistake ever” changed into lacking out at the cellular OS world, noting that there’s most effective space for one competitor for iOS and that it must have been “a herbal component for Microsoft to win.”

But, at the same time as Microsoft’s cell efforts have in no way reached the success of its competition, its mobile versions of Microsoft Office nevertheless experience a massive quantity of market penetration, much like their laptop opposite numbers.