Put Office onto a Nokia
Long term rivals Nokia and Microsoft have buried the
hatchet to stick Redmond's Office software on Nokia mobiles.
Microsoft’s lucrative Office line faces an emerging
competitive threat from free Web-based word processing, spreadsheet and other
software, especially from Google. Punters are also using smartphones to do
tasks that once could be done only on personal computers.
Analysts say that the deal is a case of the “enemy of my
enemy is my friend”. Nokia and Microsoft have been rivals for years in
cellphone operating systems, with Nokia adopting Symbian software and shunning
Windows Mobile. It might not mean a total move to Redmond's products,
they said.
More details are to come.
