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Office is a strong selling point for the Microsoft Surface tablet.





Expanding it to the iPhone and other mobile devices opens the software up to millions of new potential subscribers for an online subscription-based model of its Office software — like Office 365. But it also runs the risk of diluting demand for the Microsoft Surface.

Given that at the Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface launch Microsoft’s top executives were touting the hundreds of millions of PCs in the ecosystem, that might be less of a concern for Microsoft.


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