Microsoft Office for a microsoft powered smartphone - when?

[Guest bensy]

Will there ever be a microsoft office (word/excel viewer/editor) for a microsoft powered smartphone? We have been waiting for too long already. I beginning to think of shifting to sony-ericsson P800.

[Guest Thurstan]

They really do need to sort something out don't they?

Who would develop something like this? would it be MS themselves or someone else?

[Guest Pinnacle]

I'd be satisfied (for the time being, anyway) with at least a Word, Excel, and PDF email attachment reader/viewer. The P800 has that.

Where is the ClearVue Suite? Hasn't that app been in beta forever? Too bad it's not a public beta...it seems only a few people get the privalege of using it. I know I NEED this in my mobile device.

This is the exact reason I may be getting rid of my SPV and either going back to my PPC Phone Edition or going the P800 route. I don't want to, though.

[Guest kroblanx]

There is an MS Office document viewer out for the Smartphone. It's called RepliGo and it's an award-winner. Try it.

A third-party MS Office document editor for the Smartphone without MS approval would be impossible because of intellectual property rights violations over a restricted source code.

It's current MS marketing strategy to position the Smartphone as a "cellphone-first, PIM-second" communication device. Adding MS Office editing functionality would only eat up PocketPC market share. I don't think MS would do that yet since they're just about to release the PPC2003 in a few weeks' time.

In my opinion, MS should face the technology music and accept that smaller convergence devices like the Smartphone are inevitable and that it may be time to rethink the PocketPC line.

Discontinuing PPC? My goodness! The debates, the debates..

[Guest Pinnacle]

There is an MS Office document viewer out for the Smartphone. It's called RepliGo and it's an award-winner. Try it.

I've owned RepliGo from the first day it was released. It's a winner, for sure. BUT...it doesn't offer instant MS Office viewing of attachments. You're tied to the PC converter to use RepliGo. The results are stunning, though, I'd agree.

You're comments about cutting into PPC marketshare are probably correct. MS does the same thing in the PPC space, though. They hinder the technology so that it doesn't cut into (now) the Tablet PC marketshare. They don't want to put "too much" into these small devices at such a low price...

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Repligo is great, but there is also a need for something like ClearVue to allow viewing of attachments.

With regards to this, I have been in frequent contact with Westtek, and they expect to release their ClearVue suite very soon. There has been a slight delay as they've added extra functionality :lol:

I have been using it for a number of months, and it rocks!

I regularly use it to read word attachments to messages...

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[Guest James]

any idea on the price?

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Afraid not...

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PS Congrats on 1k posts James :lol: