News - Microsoft to announce Office deal with Nokia?

[HEXUS]

A public announcement later today is expected to unveil an applications alliance between the two companies.

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[shaithis]

Office on a Nokia phone....

I can just imagine the joy is scrolling around the ribbon button on a tiny screen.....

[scaryjim]

I can just imagine the joy is scrolling around the ribbon button on a tiny screen.....

One would assume they're porting the "Pocket" version of Office, rather than the full fat version...

[aidanjt]

Uh, mobile phones suck for emailing, much less an entire 'office' suite. What's the point?

[tickedon]

Uh, mobile phones suck for emailing, much less an entire 'office' suite. What's the point?

I used email on my Sony phone for some time before moving to the iPhone. Even my motorola from several years ago supported a single email account.

While it is not the full fat experience, I wouldn't say it sucked either.

[Lee H]

I can imagine having the joy of composing an SMS only for clippy to appear and go "It looks like your writing a text. Would you like me to convert it to txt spk for you?"

Mobile office applications IMO should be banned. We, the UK already work too many hours and many people worry and take work related tasks home with them. Having the ability to do office work on a mobile phone just increases this pressure to work 24x7 and will have a serious detrimental effect on everyones lives at home.

[TheAnimus]

Uh, mobile phones suck for emailing, much less an entire 'office' suite. What's the point?

Meh, I've been happy enough with it since the days of my old symbian 60 phone 8 years ago!

then for the last 4 years with PUSH email, its better than most peoples desktop IMAP experiance.

Composing is still a pain without a full size keyboard thou, thats why i love the sony P series, the keyboard is just about as small as i would like to go.

[directhex]

What a fascinating way to block Maemo