Microsoft officials have shared details about two with the three distinctive variations of Workplace 2010 that are in improvement: The Workplace 2010 consumer along with the Office Internet Apps. Subsequent week,
Office 2007 Pro, at the TechEd Europe conference in Berlin, they finally are slated to demonstrate and inform far more concerning the third: Office Cellular 2010.
Update (November 6): A Microsoft spokesperson called nowadays to inform me the Office 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 a lot more week to wait….
Office Cellular 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 6.1 and includes mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and a rudimentary version of the OneNote note-taking application.
The Office Mobile 2010 release will include “a refresh to your Workplace Mobile customer apps,
Office Professional Plus 2007, an all-new SharePoint Workspace Mobile app and redesigned cellular access to SharePoint site content,” according to a synopsis with 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 Office Mobile release, according for 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 of the Workplace 2010 “wave”. You’ve heard us talk about how Office 2010 spans the PC, Phone and Internet — come learn what the Phone pillar is all about! Collaboration scenarios, cellular workflows, and mobile access to data, people,
Office Enterprise 2007, and corporate resources are all part of what makes Office on the phone a new experience in 2010. A refresh for the Office Mobile client apps, an all-new SharePoint Workspace Mobile app, redesigned mobile access to SharePoint site content, also as the infrastructure needed to support it,
Microsoft Office 2010 Pro, are covered as part of this session.
In early October, I blogged about a screen shot that showed a mock-up of Workplace Mobile 2010 that seemed to indicate it the new cellular suite would be customized to work on Windows Cellular 7, the version of Microsoft’s mobile 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 Cellular consumer so you can take Workplace 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 Workplace content within the Workplace Internet App experience running on a mobile browser.”
To be clear, Workplace Cellular 2010 won’t be the only way to run Office apps on mobile devices. The Softies have said Workplace Internet Apps also are going to be able to run on unspecified phones from Microsoft and other vendors. Supposedly when the public beta of Workplace Internet Apps hits later this month,
Office 2007 Enterprise Key, Microsoft will be ready to share far more details how and when specific phones and browsers will support Office Web Apps.
I have lots of questions about Office Mobile 2010. Will it run on platforms other than Windows Mobile? When will it go to testers? Will the final version be released alongside the other two Office 2010 releases (around May/June 2010)?
What do you want to know about Office Mobile 2010?