Would you want Microsoft Office Mobile on your iPhone or Blackberry?
That seems to be the message that we are gathering when Microsoft made this kind of replies:
“In addition to the current Windows Mobile 6.5 and upcoming WM7 clients, with the recently announced alliance between Microsoft and Nokia we are working to bring Office Mobile to hundreds of millions of Nokia smartphone owners, followed by other leading Smartphone platforms.”
But my question is, when your mobile application is so shitty compared to the third parties like Quickoffice, Documents to go, your main concern is not just to bring the suite to people, but to make it competitive!
Coming from a Windows Mobile background pains me to say this but the office on phone’s always suck quite badly and people have to depend on Quickoffice and documents to go for any semblance of a productive office suite.
But from a business perspective it is important to do that. Office suite is one of Microsoft’s most competitive product and a big revenue driver.
There are many upstarts in the cloud space with very good products:
- Zoho suite on the cloud computing space
- Google Docs suite on the cloud computing space
- Quick office on the mobile space
- Documents to go on the mobile space
- iWork for the MAC OS and iPhone space
- Open office
right now the switching cost from Microsoft Office is high, but if their competitor does something game changing subtlety it might not bode so well for Microsoft.
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