Office for the iPhone, rumor or truth?

President of Microsoft Business Division, Stephen Elop, indirectly confirmed the development of the Office package for the Apple iPhone. This smartphone supports the standard Word and PowerPoint viewer for documents (usually e-mail attachments), but not editing. Microsoft is the largest producer of software for the Mac platform and Mac version of Office recorded a good sales results. In March last year, Tom Gibbons (Microsoft Vice Division for mobile phones and mobile platforms) announced that the company experimented with the iPhone platform and exploits its full functionality. Fresh rumors claim that the version of Office for the iPhone is already under construction and should exploit new opportunities of iPhone OS 3.0. Microsoft in App Store already has two applications - SeaDragon Mobile and TagReader Office alternative for this platform is already available in the market, such as Google Docs or QuickOffice.

Ultimate Steal

January 31, 2009

While we?re on the subject of good value, I was reminded of The Ultimate Steal: Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate at the price of 38.95 for students and staff at academic institutions. That's a pretty good deal: I?m a OneNote junkie so IMHO this is worth the cash for that alone, leaving aside Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Groove, InfoPath, Publisher and Outlook. Add a little Mesh, and a little Office Live Workspaces and I?m happy. Back in my day, I blew 1500 on a 486 DX/2 50 PC from Dixons only to discover that Uni had no dial up access, and I couldn?t get my hands on compilers for PoP-11. I became good at Solitaire. Happy days.