Microsoft officials have shared details about two of the 3 unique variations of Workplace 2010 that are in advancement: The Office 2010 client along with the Office Web Apps. Next week, at the TechEd Europe conference in Berlin, they lastly are slated to present and tell far more in regards to the 3rd: Workplace Cellular 2010.
Update (November 6): A Microsoft spokesperson known as nowadays to tell me the Workplace staff isn’t quite ready. This session on Office Cellular 2010 is being cancelled for TechEd Europe. I’m betting it’ll be on the PDC agenda instead, so we’ll have one additional week to wait….
Office Mobile 2010 is the version of Office that runs natively on Windows Mobile phones. The most recently released version debuted in 2007. That release is Version six.1 and includes mobile variations of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and a rudimentary version of the OneNote note-taking application.
The Office Cellular 2010 release will include “a refresh for the Workplace Mobile customer apps, an all-new SharePoint Workspace Mobile app and redesigned cellular access to SharePoint site content,” according to a synopsis of the “Microsoft Workplace Cellular 2010 In-Depth” session that is slated for November 12 at TechEd. That session also will cover the back-end infrastructure powering the new Workplace Cellular release, according towards the write-up. The presenter is listed as Outlook Product Manager Dev Balasubramanian.
Here is the entire synopsis:
OFS01-IS Microsoft Workplace Mobile 2010 In-Depth
Presenter: Dev Balasubramanian
Thu 11/12 | 13:30-14:45 | Interactive Theatre 1 - Red
In this session we cover all with the mobility technologies and scenarios enabled as part with the Office 2010 “wave”. You’ve heard us talk about how Office 2010 spans the PC, Phone and Web — come learn what the Phone pillar is all about,
Windows 7 Pro Product Key! Collaboration scenarios, cellular workflows, and cellular access to data,
Discount Office 2007, people, and corporate resources are all part of what makes Office on the phone a new experience in 2010. A refresh for the Office Mobile customer apps,
Office Professional 2007, an all-new SharePoint Workspace Mobile app, redesigned cellular access to SharePoint site content, too because the infrastructure needed to support it,
Windows 7 Professional, are covered as part of this session.
In early October, I blogged about a screen shot that showed a mock-up of Office Mobile 2010 that seemed to indicate it the new cellular suite would be customized to work on Windows Cellular 7,
Office 2010 Home And Business Key, the version of Microsoft’s cellular OS expected to be available by the end of 2010. That shot also showed off what looked like some kind of SharePoint application. Microsoft officials did not comment on that screen shot or its implications.
At the recent Microsoft SharePoint Conference, executives noted that Microsoft has a number of enhancements coming to SharePoint for cellular. According to an October blog post by SharePoint Corporate Vice President Jeff Teper:
“We both improved the experience for cellular web browsers and are introducing a new SharePoint Workspace Mobile client so you can take Office content from SharePoint offline on a Windows Mobile device. These clients let you navigate lists and libraries, search content and people and even view and edit Office content within the Office Internet App experience running on a cellular browser.”
To be clear, Office Mobile 2010 won’t be the only way to run Office apps on cellular devices. The Softies have said Office Web Apps also are going to be able to run on unspecified phones from Microsoft and other vendors. Supposedly when the public beta of Office Internet Apps hits later this month, Microsoft will be ready to share a lot more particulars how and when specific phones and browsers will support Workplace Internet Apps.
I have lots of questions about Office Mobile 2010. Will it run on platforms other than Windows Cellular? When will it go to testers? Will the final version be released alongside the other two Workplace 2010 releases (around May/June 2010)?
What do you want to know about Workplace Mobile 2010?
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