iPhone with Microsoft Office? Why not?
March 27, 2008 by Jerome Locson
Filed under Computers
I am not surprised receiving news alert about ‘Microsoft Office on iPhone’ from Fortune’s Big Tech by Jon Fortt.
Microsoft had already been working Apple in providing the Office Suite for Mac with Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (MacBu) which recently launched last January 2008 its Office for Mac 2008.
A team of Microsoft’s Software Engineers examines the released software development kit (SDK) by Apple allowing developers to create applications for both iPhone and iPod Touch.
“It’s really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone,” Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group, told Fortune on Monday. “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.” [source]
Why not? What currently some iPhone software allow is just reading of documents but not editing. Extending the functionalities of Microsoft Office to iPhone more than just reading would mean another venture for the MacBu. Well, let’s hope that this will become a reality.
