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.

MS Office may be released for iPad

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Microsoft consider the opportunity to release their own office package for iPhone said Stephen Elop, business unit president of Microsoft, quoted by TechCrunch.

Commenting on Web 2.0 Expo events, Elop implied that his company will release an iPhone version of Office but it is not expected soon.

The appearance of office package for iPhone will make the Apple smartphone more attractive to business users. They will be able to view and edit documents in the most popular formats.

However analysts warn that Microsoft can harm its own mobile operating system Windows Mobile this way. One of its advantages are the most popular office package support.

Microsoft already gave license to Apple for MS Exchange support which is one of the main requirements of business users.

Microsoft plan to release Office for iPhone

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