MS Office coming to the iPhone?
Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:52PM EDT
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Microsoft's Mac team is reportedly poring over the newly released development kit for the iPhone. Can a iPhone-ready version of Office be far behind?
"It's important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone," Microsoft exec Tom Gibbons said in the Fortune story. "To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in that environment, we're actually in the process of trying to understand that now."
Meanwhile, software developer DataViz, which makes a series of excellent Office document editors for Windows Mobile, Palm, and (soon) BlackBerry devices is said to be digging into the iPhone SDK as well.
So one way or another, it looks like we'll be seeing some serious Office-ready applications for the iPhone come June, when the iTunes App store is slated for launch.
Indeed, one of the questions I get most frequently from corporate road warriors considering the iPhone is whether they'll be able to edit Office documents on it. (Answer: You can read Word and Excel files, but you can't edit them.)
Of course, while I always appreciated the ability to edit Office docs on my old Treo, I can't say I ever actually did it that much, beyond the odd tweak.
Anyway, who out there is eager to compose and edit Office files on your iPhone? Anyone on the fence who'd snap up an iPhone if Office was in the picture?
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2 Posted by matt_archbold2002 on Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:35PM EDT Report Abuse
If "iOffice" does become a reality, I think it will be more user friendly due to multi touch and being able to easily zoom and flick around so you can edit docs quicker. I could see this becoming very popular if done right (and not charging too much for it)
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3 Posted by thekrow01 on Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:17PM EDT Report Abuse
This is the one thing about the iPhone I've been waiting for! Once this kicks in (and all the bugs are worked out) I'm getting my iPhone 2.0!! Whooo hoooo!
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4 Posted by shanwaichui on Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:58AM EDT Report Abuse
Good job!!
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1 Posted by ryanbonick on Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:35PM EDT Report Abuse
Boo-yah! I can't wait for this software to become available. The iPhone is turning into a multimedia portable computer. This and the rest of the apps will send iPhone sales over the top!