Microsoft Office Apps For Android Will Work On Chrome OS

Some Chromebooks were seeing issues while attempting to get to Office Apps on Google Play Store. In light of this, Microsoft has at long last cleared up the circumstance about its mainstream profitability applications.

The Issue and Clarification by Microsoft

Asus Flip particularly observed this issue with the message that the Office applications were "unsupported on this gadget". Acer Chromebook R13 wasn't getting this issue when tried. This confounded the Chrome OS clients in the matter of what Microsoft's position was on this issue. Are Office Apps not accessible on Chrome OS? Is there a constraint?

Microsoft discharged an announcement on the matter illuminating any issues or disarray the clients had. The announcement said,

Our procedure has not changed. Office for Android is upheld on Chrome OS gadgets through the Google Play Store. While Google Play on Chrome OS is in beta, we are collaborating with Google to convey the best experience for Chromebook clients and plan to make the applications accessible on every single good gadget by general accessibility.

This is uplifting news for Chromebook clients who needed to utilize Office on their gadgets. This will permit them to chip away at Chromebooks pretty much and in addition they can on a Windows tablet.

There is a concealed condition however.

Free for Smaller Devices as it were

The Redmond organization has restricted the free form of the Office Apps to 10.1 inch gadgets or littler. Whatever other Chrome OS gadget or tablet which is greater than 10.1 inches will need to get an Office 365 membership to utilize Office Apps. Here's the part of the announcement that says this condition:

In the wake of marking in with a free Microsoft account, the center review, making, altering and printing background is free in Office applications for iOS, Android and Windows 10 Mobile, on gadgets 10.1" or littler… ..

… ..On gadgets bigger than 10.1", an Office 365 membership is required to open the capacity to make, alter or print records.

Greater part of the Chromebooks available are bigger than 10.1 inches, this implies you will be compelled to purchase an Office 365 membership to utilize Office on your Chromebook. Asus Flip will have the capacity to run the Office Apps for nothing due to being 10.1 crawls in size.