Microsoft and Nokia to Bring Office Mobile to Nokia Devices

Microsoft and Nokia today announces an alliance, which will begin collaborating immediately on the design, development and marketing of productivity solutions for the mobile professional, bringing Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia’s Symbian devices. These solutions will be available for a broad range of Nokia smartphones starting with the company’s business-optimized range, Nokia Eseries.

Nokia is planning to offer to its Nokia E Series phone users a version of Office Mobile; a version of Office Communicator Mobile (Microsoft’s corporate instant messaging service for mobile devices), System Center device management service and other Microsoft collaboration services.

The E Series are just the first phones to which Nokia plans to bring the Microsoft services; it will expand availability across its portfolio to other Nokia Symbian phones over time.

Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will begin collaborating immediately on the design, development and marketing of productivity solutions for the mobile professional, bringing Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia's Symbian devices. These solutions will be available for a broad range of Nokia smartphones starting with the company's business-optimized range, Nokia Eseries. The two companies will also market these solutions to businesses, carriers and individuals.

Both Microsoft Corp. and Nokia possess a rare combination of enterprise experience and consumer understanding and, in addition to the collaboration on existing software and services, will use these assets to jointly design a range of new user experiences for future Nokia devices. These experiences will be identified together, and will be created by dedicated teams inside both companies to better meet the growing needs of the mobile professional.

Many cell phones are trying to incorporate applications like the iPhone has. To do this, Nokia has added the capabilities of viewing and editing all of your personal or business Office files. This new application is becoming very popular for all people for are looking to make things more convenient and productive. There are currently more than 200 million Smartphone users globally, so making this application useful to all those users will soon give Nokia a huge success in the mobile industry. The alliance between Microsoft and Nokia will bring computers even closer to cell phone use. Hopefully, another step to combining computers and mobility.