While Office suite apps - Word, PowerPoint, Excel - were free to download and do reading, users needed an Office 365 subscription to edit and access advanced features. Within hours of its release, the productivity suite apps were among the top free apps on the App Store. Microsoft released Office for iPad last year. An Office 365 subscription starts at $6.99-per-month (Rs.
However, the iPad Pro thus becomes the first iOS device to not feature free editing on the Office apps for the platform. So it wasn't really surprising when the company confirmed to Ars Technica that the iPad Pro users wouldn't be able to use the aforementioned services for free. Even the Android and Windows 10 Office Mobile apps follow the same pricing. The company had announced in March that the editing feature would require an Office 365 subscription on any device with a display larger than 10.1 inches. Microsoft offers both viewing and editing features in iPad for free, but the company has said that it would charge for the same features on the iPad Pro.
If you're planning to purchase the device and use Microsoft's productivity suite on it, do note that editing and other advanced features won't be free. Microsoft stepped on stage at Apple's September 9 event to showcase several new features in Office 365 for the iPad Pro. If you're planning to purchase an iPad Pro and use Microsoft's productivity suite on it, keep in mind that editing and other advanced features won't be free.
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