According to Microsoft-Watch.com a version of Office 12 for Windows Mobile is expected to be in production along with the desktop version of Office 12.
“Tentatively called “Office 12 for Windows Mobile,” the product will consist of viewers for Word, Excel and PowerPoint (along with some very limited editing capabilities for Word and Excel) — plus a new “OneNote Mobile” version of Microsoft’s OneNote note-taking application. The mobile Office 12 suite is being designed to run on smart phones and PDAs, sources said.
Partners said that Microsoft is planning to include rights-management support for the Mobile Office family members, as well as support for XML as the default file format for the mini-suite. (The XML file format support will likely lag the rest of the mobile Office suite features, sources said).
OneNote Mobile is set to include note taking and viewing capabilities. And because it will be phone-based, it will be able to take advantage of built-in camera phones, allowing users to snap photos of whiteboards, documents or other source information, and then annotate and share that information from a smart phone or PDA, sources said.”
It’s about time they had a version of OneNote for Windows Mobile! It’s too bad we probably won’t see this update for at least another year.
Originally published on Pocketnow on November 13, 2005. More News Archive articles from the Pocketnow archive.