Microsoft today began taking registration requests from Android tablet users for a beta of Office for Google’s mobile operating system.

The final version, which Microsoft dubs “general availability,” will be available in early 2015, Microsoft said, without naming a specific date or month. Meanwhile, the preview will be offered to those invited to the beta program within the next 7 days.

On the form potential preview participants were asked to fill out, Microsoft said that users must have an Android tablet with a screen size between 7-in. and 10.1-in. be running Android 4.4, aka KitKat; and forgo any OS updates during the time they use the preview.

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