<p>Many apps already allow users to create and edit Office file formats - some of them for free.1/2/2013 3:24:00 PMBy: Brian Jackson</p><p>When Microsoft Corp. brings Office to Apple's mobile devices, will you switch to it from the productivity suite you're already using?</p><p>Blogger Eric Eckel is looking forward to Microsoft Office being released on iOS, saying the productivity suite has become the defecto standard from large enterprises to residential users and across the spectrum. He says that in a cloud-centric world where users are juggling multiple devices and working on the same files using all of them, compatibility is the glue that makes it all work.</p><p>But a simple search for "Microsoft Office" in the app store today renders several worthy mobile productivity suites that are already compatible with Microsoft Word and work hand-in-hand with several different cloud storage vendors like Dropbox or Google Drive, and not just SkyDrive. Here's just a few alternatives that are already available instead of Microsoft Office for iOS:CloudOn</p><p><a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=69619">Keep reading...</a></p>