Microsoft Office apps for iPad top 12m downloads

Office apps for iPad have been downloaded more than 12 million times in the space of a week, Microsoft has revealed.

This includes downloads of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote.

Office for iPad launched last week and soon went to the top of the App Store chart. It can be downloaded for free, but a subscription to Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 is required to edit or create new documents.

More than 12 million downloads of Word, Excel, PPT & OneNote for #iPad from the @AppStore <3 #OfficeforiPad pic.twitter.com/iT2egNPDkj

— Microsoft Office (@Office) April 3, 2014

Microsoft Office Mobile is also currently top of the free iOS App Store chart in the ‘productivity’ category.