Quickoffice is a discontinued

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proprietary

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for

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s which allows viewing, creating and editing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. It consists of ''Quickword'' (a

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), ''Quicksheet'' (a

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), ''QuickPoint'' (a

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) and ''QuickPDF'' (a

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viewer). The programs are compatible with

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file formats, but not the

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file format. Quickoffice was commonly used on

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s and tablets. It was the main office editing suite on

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where it first appeared in 2005 and last updated in 2011, and came pre-loaded on all devices. It was released for

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in 2010. There was a project to port Quickoffice to

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s in February 2013, and the port released as a Chrome extension named "Office Editing for Docs, Sheets, and Slides."

History

Quickoffice, Inc., a company in

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, was founded as Cutting Edge Software Inc. by Jeff Musa in 1997, offering

and

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compatibility for mobile devices. It developed the Quicksheet spreadsheet for

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, 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 by ''Tap Magazine''. Cutting Edge Software was acquired by Mobility Electronics in 2002 for an undisclosed sum and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary until it was sold to Mobile Digital Media in 2004, when that firm changed the name to Quickoffice, Inc. prior to the sale of the Mobile Digital Media business in 2005. On June 5, 2012,

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acquired Quickoffice, Inc., along with its team of developers, for an undisclosed sum. Google re-released Quickoffice as a free app on September 19, 2013, and includes it with its

operating system from version 4.4 KitKat. After having integrated the features of Quickoffice into its own newly released

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, Google Sheets and

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apps, on 29 June 2014, Google announced that Quickoffice would be discontinued, and had since been removed from the

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and

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