About bloody time... Of course, I'm not holding by breath for even half way decent integration with Skydrive and whatnot. Can't get any of that stuff to work together half decently on Android (and yes, I know Android doesn't have proper office, but I still can't get many programs to work together half decently with Skydrive) and I doubt I'll find better here.
The real solution to people that have issues with phones without Office and Skydrive integration: buy a Windows Phone.
My phone is a Lumia 900 for precisely that reason. That being said, I can understand someone wanting an Android or iPhone ahead of a Windows phone in almost every other area. Kind of lacking on the apps/features front and doesn't allow access to the file system like Android devices.
No one gets the scam here. Microsoft wants you to pay a monthly subscription for this. Office 365 is just like Adobe is doing with Photoshop. You rent the software each month. Microsoft is not "charging you" for the use of the mobile version office directly, you are paying for it through your Office 365 subscription anyay.
MS really needs to put their money where their mouths are. My old Windows 7 phone with MS Office couldn't even display word documents properly. Maybe they put more effort into the iPhone edition since more people are using iPhones?
Or you can use android or IOS and the office suite that google provide with drive, for the best part of time you not need advanced features. And its free and work in whatever desktop you have. IOS + Office (you pay double) Windows + Office (better option) Android + Drive (free option) you choose...
My biggest disappointment with Windows phones is that you can't attach anything other than a photo to a freaking email. Which kind of makes the whole office thing useless, except if you just want to upload the changes to sky drive. I was an early adopter and last time I went to the Windows Store to check out the Windows Phone 8 devices they still were lacking this feature and a lot other features requested by the community since Windows phone 7 came out.
Sure it has the same name, but is it the same thing? I have seen the MS web apps (for Office) cannot even display document properly on Android tablet, while the web apps running on x86 desktop does show the right format. I remember how Word Perfect lost to Microsoft back in the 90s when they could not bring out a stable version of Windows version. Nowadays it seems MS itself is walking down the same road.