MS Office may be released for iPad

Microsoft is considering the possibility to create a specialized version of its Office package for the tablet iPad. Such information appeared in various websites which refer to Mike Tedesco, product manager at Microsoft.

The company however has not taken a final decision to place a similar modification of the office suite. If Microsoft ever does begin to develop, it will build upon the Office suite for Mac, writes t3.com.

iPad-version of MS Office will need to be tailored to the specifics of the iPhone OS platform and the technical characteristics of the iPad.

Tablet shown recently by Steve Jobs provides 9.7-inch touch screen, 1-GHz processor Apple A4, 64 gigabytes of memory modules wireless Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

iPad is managed by the operating system iPhone OS 3.2 which does not support multitasking.