MS is not a cross-platform company. They pay only lip service to cross platform interoperability but they have history of taking a standard and applying their own proprietary hooks to keep you locked in.
I've never used it personally, but I'm told by people who do, that Mac Office only contains a subset of the functionality that Windows office has.
I'm curious to know what, if anything, MS will bring to the iPhone. But whatever that "thing" is, it likely will not have all of the functionality of it's Windows Mobile equivalent unless it serves MS's SOP of locking you in somehow. IMO, It's more likely that they have a few engineers looking to see what they can copy and attempt to do similarly or better.
Until the iPhone has 3G, and until 3rd party apps are proven to be sufficiently open, I am stuck on Windows Mobile, so I encourage MS to steal all they can too!
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MS is not a cross-platform company. They pay only lip service to cross platform interoperability but they have history of taking a standard and applying their own proprietary hooks to keep you locked in.
I've never used it personally, but I'm told by people who do, that Mac Office only contains a subset of the functionality that Windows office has.
I'm curious to know what, if anything, MS will bring to the iPhone. But whatever that "thing" is, it likely will not have all of the functionality of it's Windows Mobile equivalent unless it serves MS's SOP of locking you in somehow. IMO, It's more likely that they have a few engineers looking to see what they can copy and attempt to do similarly or better.
Microsoft copies? Really?
As bad as Windows Mobile can be, it can only get better if they copy things from the iPhone.
Until the iPhone has 3G, and until 3rd party apps are proven to be sufficiently open, I am stuck on Windows Mobile, so I encourage MS to steal all they can too!