“Microsoft’s Word app for the iPad has proved something of a flop with users in the first month since it was made available, with an average user rating of just two and a half stars from more than 1,000 reviews,” Dan Worth reports for V3.
“Of 1,028 ratings for the Word app on iTunes, 500 users have rated it at just one star,” Worth reports. “This is contrasted with 303 five-star reviews, while the rest of the votes are split evenly between four stars (77), three stars (72) and two stars (76).”
“The bulk of the negative reviews cite the fact that using the Word app to any useful degree requires a full Office 365 subscription,” Worth reports. “The lack of printer support from within the app was another cause of irritation.”
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