Microsoft Possibly Working on More Apps for iPhone/Touch
by Jody Mitoma on March 25, 2008 at 9:58 pm
According to Fortune’s Big Tech blog, Microsoft is looking into designing their own share of applications for the iPhone, using the SDK.
One thing I’d love for Microsoft to work on, personally, is a brand new Mobile Windows Live Messenger port for the iPhone. This is something they really need to consider (if Apple allows for it, that is).
MacRumor explains in depth:
Fortune’s Big Tech blog reveals that Microsoft is taking a serious look into the iPhone SDK for the possibility of launching their own iPhone-specific applications.
“It’s really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone,” Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group, told Fortune on Monday. “To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in that environment, we’re actually in the process of trying to understand that now.”
As the article points out, Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit is one of the largest 3rd party developers for the Mac and brings millions in annual profit to Microsoft. Besides the Mac BU, Voice recognition unit TellMe (now part of Microsoft) is also interested.
“… as long as the iPhone SDK will allow software to take advantage of voice recording and location-based information, said general manager Mike McCue, TellMe will be all over it.”
TellMe is a voice-driven application for mobile phones.
You’d think Microsoft had done enough with the release of the upcoming Enterprise for firmware 1.2.0 (2.0.0).
Ahh well, you can never have too many apps for the iPhone/Touch!
(Source: MacRumors)
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March 25th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Oh gawd, I can already see this ad:
“Buy YOUR copy of Microsoft Office for iPhone / iPod Touch for only $99.99! Order soon!”
*ducks*
March 25th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Haha, I never thought of that.
Microsoft would be _very_ smart to release an Office Suite for the iPhone/Touch.
Pricing it at a lovely $10.00 or so. It’d bring in a nice sum of money at least…. But not a large enough sum for Microsoft Inc., unfortunately, so they may not do it after all…
March 29th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
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