Paradoxes of life, or business vagaries that are difficult to understand. Be that as it may, the fact is that while 12,9 ″ iPad Pro users must subscribe to Office 365 in order to use the tools for creating and editing OfficeThose who opt for the 9,7 ″ model will have it free. Why?
Why Office is free, only sometimes
The iPad Pro, in its two sizes, and as its name suggests, is aimed at professional use. It is a mobile device and Microsoft wants its office automation tools integrated into the package Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) are used on these devices however, while users of the 12,9 ″ iPad Pro will have to pay to, for example, create and edit text documents by subscribing to Office 365, buyers of the 9,7 iPad Pro "Like the users of the iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPhone, they will see how these applications are ready for download and use completely free of charge. A little weird, right? The answer to why this is so lies in something as irrelevant as the size of the screen.
As we can read in MacWorld, for Microsoft, a mobile device is one that has a screen size of no more than 10,1 inches, and in this, the "big" iPad Pro goes too far.
"Microsoft decided to divide mobile and desktop users by screen size :. specifically, 10.1 inches. Anything less than that, and users can do just about anything they want with the appropriate iOS, Windows, or Android apps, including creating, editing, or sharing documents. However, if you are using the Office applications on a device whose screen is larger than 10,1 inches, Microsoft will not allow you to create a new document, only edit and view an Office document created elsewhere »system. (MacWorld)
Thus, this decision by Microsoft has led to a situation, at least somewhat peculiar, and that is that while users of Microsoft's Surface must pay a subscription to be able to fully use Office tools, those who who have chosen the 9,7 ″ iPad Pro as their working deviceThey can do the same, but for free. In other words, Microsoft competes with itself and leaves the 9,7 ″ iPad Pro with a certain advantage.
Logical? Will they change their mind? And if they do, in what sense will they do it, that all pay or that none pay?
SOURCE | MacWorld