QuickOffice installed on 30 million devices.
Google has acquired QuickOffice, maker of the app of the same name which edits Microsoft Office documents on Android and Apple tablets and smartphones.
Google said it bought QuickOffice because of its ability to work with popular file formats. The acquisition would bolster Google’s cloud productivity suite, Google Apps, which was limited in accurately converting and editing the latest Microsoft file formats (.docx, .xlsx and .pptx).
Microsoft has publicly attacked Google Apps for its inability to display properly Excel graphs, PowerPoint animations and Word document formatting.
Google would probably have been attracted by the service’s strong user base. QuickOffice claimed it was installed on more than 300 million devices in 180 countries, wrote Mashable’s Peter Pachal.
“We are ushering in a new chapter with Google,” Alan Masarek, the CEO of QuickOffice, wrote on the QuickOffice blog. “By combining the magic of Google’s intuitive solutions with QuickOffice’s powerful products, our shared vision for anytime, anywhere productivity can only grow.”
QuickOffice would improve Google Apps’ success with mobile enterprise customers, many of which used QuickOffice already for its encryption and secure editing, Pachal claimed.