Microsoft’s decision to keep Office suite away from iPad may be a good way to protect sales of Windows tablets and especially Microsoft’s Surface Pro and RT, but the company is losing potential revenues. Some recent research from Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt showing that Microsoft is leaving $2.5 billion on the table every year by not making the Office suite available to Apple’s tablets. Corresponding to a lite bit more than 10% of Microsoft's Business Division annual revenue of $22 billion, which is home to Office suite.
Another problem is the current app model as supported by Apple. Microsoft is used to produce a new version of Office every few years, having it replace by the older version. But this is not how the ecosystem works for apps, Apple’s iPad consumers expect to receive a continuous updates over time for free. A solution to this could be the cloud version of the Office suite, you subscribe to your Office 365 including an iOS client!
But let’s see what the new version of the Office 365 apps for businesses has on its release on 27 February.