Nokia Teaming Up With Microsoft to Install MS Office on Nokia Phones

Boosting up the battle in corporate mobile phone world, Nokia has announced their plans to join hands with the software giant Microsoft to provide the MS Office in Nokia Mobile Phones. The industry watchers speculate this move as a “Win Win” policy for both Nokia and Microsoft. With this deal, Microsoft can add pressure to Google and some other software tycoons who are availing free web based applications for mobile phones. Nokia aims mainly at Apple iPhone and RIM blackberry phones, which are considered as the epitome of business phones.

The duo has revealed that they will start working on this deal with immediate effect. The R&D will be designing, developing and selling the handsets under “Microsoft Office Mobile” brand. Mainly aimed at the business users, this application will be launched initially in the business phone series, Nokia E Series. By making use of the advanced Symbian OS, people will be able to read, create or edit any Word, PowerPoint and Excel document in their Nokia Mobile phone itself. This will be of great help for the business users, as they can store a good amount of frequently accessed info in their mobile phone itself.

It is also told that Nokia will make use of the United Communications platform developed by Microsoft to unite the emails, online conferencing, phone and IM for the corporate users. It is a well known fact that the release of free web based internet and mobile applications by Google has created a bump in the business of most of the software providers. In this juncture, it is also notable that Microsoft has a plan to release the web-based version of Office suite named Office Web Apps along with the launch of Microsoft Office 2010.

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