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By Tim Conneally | Published August 12, 2009, 11:53 AM
Nokia's Symbian S60 today became the first non-Windows Mobile platform to receive support for the Microsoft Office Mobile suite of applications and services. Microsoft and Nokia today announced their long-term partnership to collaborate on the design, development, and marketing of mobile productivity solutions.
Beginning next year, Nokia's E-series handsets will ship with Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile built in, and later, other Office applications and software will be added to the Symbian platform, such as mobile versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote, as well as SharePoint Server and Microsoft System Center.
Bloggers and journalists speculated that today's conference was going to announce Windows Mobile coming to Nokia devices, which fell in sync with a simultaneous rumor of Nokia abandoning Symbian for its open source tablet OS Maemo. The latter of these rumors was quickly squashed by Nokia spokespeople responding to several bloggers, and Nokia's Executive Vice President for Devices, Kai Oistamo, addressed the former rumor by saying "there are no such plans" to make a Windows Mobile Nokia device.
In today's announcement, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop said, "We remain deeply committed to Windows Mobile...and Nokia is absolutely committed to Symbian. We both believe strongly in our respective strategies...but we both believe in choice."
The alliance is not aimed at the consumer segment, but rather at combining Microsoft's strength in enterprise mobility with Nokia's industry-leading device penetration. Stephen Drake, Vice President of Mobility & Telecom at IDC said, "By bringing Microsoft's productivity solutions to Nokia's large customer base, the two companies should be better able to serve the needs of the growing mobile worker population, which IDC estimates to reach 1 billion worldwide in 2011."
Oistamo said, "This is a formidable challenge for RIM, if for no one else."
i wonder if this will come with word seeing that MS has just been forbidden from selling WORD http://news.slashdot.org...ft-To-Stop-Selling-Word
im sure that theres a easy way to get around the xml problem maybe just go back to the old .doc or some thing
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|Microsoft Office should be the one and only office suite available for all types of computing devices. The world doesn't need any inferior products from other companies.
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|Oh, puh-leez.
People will use what they need, and if they *don't* need exchange compatibility, other office suites can compare quite well...especially at pricing. ;)
...but then again, for those of us who require exchange functionality, price really isn't much of an issue either. Either the corp will foot the bill, or, if you "consult", a TechNet subscription can be had on the cheap and be written off.
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|The ribbon interface alone makes MS Office the best office suite available. Nobody wants to navigate lengthy menu after lengthy menu just to find what they're looking for. No other office suite is as easy to use as Microsoft Office. Microsoft's .DOCX and other XML-based formats (which Microsoft originally invented despite what the liars filing the lawsuit are claiming) are superior to every other format currently available.
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|Nooo, Nokia do not need to sell its soul to M$. Symbian works pretty good now and we do not need anything from Satan...
There are several suites which work better than MS crap. It is easier to work with quickoffice, officesuite or several packages already available for symbian than with any Winblows mobile useless garbage!
We do not need it, we do not want it and it will end hurting Symbian OS...
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|satan? You need to get a life if you think Microsoft is satan.
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|"Symbian works pretty good now and we do not need anything from Satan... "
Well, there goes any hope of the above being a rational post. Thanks for letting us know right away so we could stop reading right there.
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