Quickoffice was commonly used onsmartphones andtablets. It was the main office editing suite onSymbian OS where it first appeared in 2005 and last updated in 2011, and came pre-loaded on all devices.[5] It was released forAndroid in 2010.[6] There was a project to port Quickoffice toChromebooks in February 2013,[7] and the port released as aChrome extension named "Office Editing for Docs, Sheets, and Slides."
Quickoffice, Inc., a company inPlano, Texas, was founded asCutting Edge Software Inc. by Jeff Musa in 1997,[8] offeringMicrosoft Office andExcel compatibility for mobile devices.[9] It developed the Quicksheet spreadsheet forPalm OS,[10][11] and the free QuickOffice and paid-for QuickOffice Pro and QuickOffice Pro HD apps. Its flagship products Quicksheet and SmartDoc both won "Best in Class" honors for 1998 and 1999 byTap Magazine.[12] Cutting Edge Software was acquired by Mobility Electronics in 2002[13] for an undisclosed sum and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary until it was sold to Mobile Digital Media in 2004,[14] when that firm changed the name to Quickoffice, Inc. prior to the sale of the Mobile Digital Media business in 2005.[15]
On June 5, 2012,Google acquired Quickoffice, Inc., along with its team of developers, for an undisclosed sum.[16][17][18] Google re-released Quickoffice, as a free app on September 19, 2013,[19] and includes it with itsAndroid operating system from version 4.4 KitKat.[20]
After having integrated the features of Quickoffice into its own newly releasedGoogle Docs,Google Sheets andGoogle Slides apps, on 29 June 2014, Google announced that Quickoffice would be discontinued, and had since been removed from theGoogle Play Store andApp Store.[21]
