According to BGR, Microsoft will launch a Office Suite for iOS and Android in November 2012.It remains unclear to what extend such Tablet-version of Office will be as extended as the desktop version (features, extension, etc.), and its price still remains unknown. We can predict that it should be a rather successful application on the iPad, as it will bring a productivity tool lacking for many corporates thinking of dropping notebooks for a tablet-only environment, at least for some functions. The Office version for iOS might also boost sales of iPad as well as those of external peripherals such as docking stations, keyboard and trackpad. 
By linathael, original by Lionel