In recent weeks, there’s been a buzz around the iPhone’s potential as a business handset, despite its original launch as a purely consumer-focused device. In part, it’s because Apple has plans to beef up the iPhone’s capability for corporate email. However, it seems Microsoft could be weighing in too, with plans to bring Office to the iPhone.
Check these comments from Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s specialised devices and applications group, in an interview with Fortune:
“It’s really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone. 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… The key question is, what is the value that we need to bring? We’re still getting comfortable with the SDK, right? It’s just come out. So we had a guess as to what feasibility would be like, now we’ll really get our head wrapped around that.”
The same article suggests that Microsoft subsidiary TellMe is also eyeing the iPhon, potentially bringing its voice recognition technology to Apple’s handset.
(via Fortune)
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