Google offers free Quickoffice app to Google Apps subscribers [Video]

The search giant said in a blog post Wednesday it will offer a version of Quickoffice at no charge to paying subscribers of Google Apps, its online bundle of applications for working with text, spreadsheet and presentation files. Quickoffice is an iPad app for creating and editing Microsoft documents that works with Google’s online storage service, Google Drive.

Rumors persist that Microsoft will soon launch iOS and Android versions of its Office suite, though the company has denied comments by a subsidiary that such apps will come early next year. Microsoft’s newly launched Office 365 subscription plans allow customers to install Office on multiple devices for a monthly fee, as opposed to buying the software outright.

In addition to the newly offered free version of the Quickoffice iPad app made available to Google Apps subscribers, a paid version is still available for $7.99. Quickoffice emerged as a leading office suite on iOS for working with Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, before …