How Microsoft Re-Invented Office for Touch, Social and the Cloud

In tech, apps come and go. Anyone working in publishing in the 1990s and early 2000s saw Aldus PageMaker give way to QuarkXPress, which eventually ceded to Adobe InDesign. No matter how good any app may be at a given time, technology doesn't stop advancing, which in turn changes people's needs. That opens up opportunities for more nimble competitors to win over customers with apps that better serve those needs.

Until recently, Microsoft Office has been fairly immune to this cycle. It's been a mainstay of productivity software for more than 20 years -- if you've worked with electronic documents at all, chances are you're more than familiar with it.

However, the rise of mobile device…
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