Microsoft and Nokia today announces an alliance to deliver a groundbreaking, enterprise-grade solution for mobile productivity. One of the agenda is that Microsoft and Nokia will work together to provide the Microsoft Office Mobile including the related communications and collaboration software and services such as Exchange ActiveSync and Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile to Nokia smartphones.
As you probably know that Microsoft already makes a version of Office Mobile for Windows Mobile devices. But for Nokia smartphones, there are already other players like DataViz and QuickOffice. According to the source, the agreement will start by optimizing access to e-mail and other personal information with Exchange ActiveSync and followed by the Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile next year and other Office applications and related software and services in the future including the following:
- The ability to view, edit, create and share Office documents on more devices in more places with mobile-optimized versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft OneNote
- Enterprise instant messaging and presence, and optimized conferencing and collaboration experience with Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile
- Mobile access to intranet and extranet portals built on Microsoft SharePoint Server
- Enterprise device management with Microsoft System Center
In another source, Microsoft’s Mac unit is reported to schedule mysterious news conference in August 13 which is rumored to talk about the plan from Microsoft to release the Office Mobile for iPhone. However it’s not clear yet since that’s all the info available at the moment. We’ll keep you updated.
