Office 365 comes in a number of flavors: Business plans that include the iPad apps cost $12.50 to $15.00 per month and Home Premium (five desktops and five tablets) costs $9.99 per month. You can open Office documents for free, but creating and editing them requires a paid Office 365 subscription. What you get for free and what'll cost you. The newest members of the venerable Office suite include three apps ( Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and our own Mary Jo Foley laid out In June 2013 and it too required an Office 365 subscription. That Microsoft went subscription-only with its new iPad apps shouldn't come as a surprise, Office Mobile landed on the iPhone Microsoft launched Office for iPad yesterday and the good news is that the new apps are free, but the bad news is that they're read-only runtimes unless you pony up for an Office 365 subscription.
