Microsoft Excel joins the 1 billion installs club on Android

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What you need to know

  • Microsoft Excel recently hit 1 billion installs on Android.
  • Excel is the third Microsoft app to hit the 1 billion install milestone on Android.
  • Microsoft has several other apps that have millions of installs on Android.

The Google Play Store only updates the publicly facing install numbers for apps at milestone such as 50 million, 100 million, 500 million, and 1 billion, so it's hard to tell the exact date that Excel hit the 1 billion mark. It seems to have passed the milestone sometime over the weekend.

In addition to having dozens of apps on Android, Microsoft announced the Surface Duo last week, a folding Surface phone that runs Android. The new folding device will come out near the end of 2020.

Microsoft's 'folding' Surface Duo is a near-perfect execution of a very old idea

Several other Microsoft apps have impressive install numbers and could be the next to hit the 1 billion install milestone. Microsoft PowerPoint has over 500 million installs and Microsoft Edge, Your Phone, and Microsoft Launcher have over 10 million installs each.