maemo.org - Talk - Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

maemo.org - Talk (https://talk.maemo.org/index.php)

- General (https://talk.maemo.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7)

- - Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal (https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30759)

Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10307378-56.html

Dovetails nicely with the new tablets?

Re: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

Microsoft Reaches Deal With Nokia on Mobile Version of Office

Quote:

By NICK WINGFIELD
Microsoft Corp. has reached an agreement with Nokia Corp. to make a mobile version of Microsoft's Office suite of software that works on Nokia cellphones, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The deal with Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, could help Microsoft play a broader role in mobile devices while fortifying its Office business in the face of competition from free Web-based word processors, spreadsheets and other applications from Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. and others. Microsoft, too, is testing a Web-based version of Office.

The alliance between Nokia and Microsoft is another sign that the two companies, once fiercest competitors, are coming closer together as other mutual threats have emerged. Microsoft makes an operating system for cellphones called Windows Mobile that competes with Symbian, the software that powers most Nokia phones.

The WSJ article doesn't mention Maemo but that has pro'ly more to do with their ignorance than anything else.

>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125002993162923941.html

Re: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

Oh no, they will not infect our Maemo with closed MS Office and its closed formats.

Re: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

I contacted the writer at Cnet & let her know about the Maemo / rx-51 potential. She wrote back, saying, that I should be able to run Office 2010 on my browser, on the tablet. I'm guessing this might be more feasible under Mer, once it matures to full release status.

But the potential of having access to Office definitely makes tablets a better bargain than ever.

Re: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of MS.

But for a LOT of people, particularly in Enterprise circumstances, the ability to seamlessly use Office is a big selling point.

Re: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

But why not go the Open Source route and make a mobile version of OpenOffice.org?

I guess that would mean doing it in-house. Instead, MS came to Nokia and made them an offer they couldn't refuse... Development and support taken care of over in Seattle, rather than Helsinki...

Re: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

Quote:

Originally Posted by qole (Post 311055)

But why not go the Open Source route and make a mobile version of OpenOffice.org?

There have already been pocket versions of word, etc since the early PocketPC days, so it makes sense that they would have something to work with.

I've always thought that OOo was an acronym for BLOAT.

SoftMaker's Office might be a future (but closed) alternative, since they currently support Windows, Pocket PCs, Windows CE, and Linux X86. They had a 2002 version of their word processor that was respectable on the Sharp Zaurus. So if they thought there was a reasonable market they could probably be convinced to jump in.

Edit: Oh well ... Just saw the larger thread in Off-Topic after replying to this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30756

Threads should probably be merged and maybe become General if it looks like maemo is a candidate application for the alliance.

Re: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

I like this. Office 2007 is a main reason why I have problems with using my NIT for a lot of things and carry around a laptop when I'd rather not.

Re: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

This is a bigger advent than many seem to realize based on response so far...

It's HUGE. Well... potentially. ;)

Re: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal

Oh no.. where else would the opensource purists will go? :P