Microsoft and Nokia Team Up to Fight Common Enemy

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:12am 13/08/09 | 14 Comments

Once fierce enemies, Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up in an effort to cut in deeper on the Smartphone market, directly throwing down a gauntlet to Research In Motion's Blackberry.

"This is giving some of our competitors -- let's spell it out, RIM -- a run for their money," said Nokia Executive Vice President Robert Andersson, to Reuters. "I don't think BlackBerry has seen the kind of competition we can provide them now."

The collaboration means most of Microsoft's key Office applications such as Word and Excel will now be made available on Nokia handsets among much more. Check out the full story here.

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Steve Farrelly
Posted 11:38am 13/8/09

Should be getting my N97 from Nokia for a trial run today :)

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3dee
Posted 11:47am 13/8/09

I was expecting it to be against Apple lol.

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Martz
Posted 12:08pm 13/8/09

$100 it won't be an iphone killer. just another failed attempt.

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Hogfather
Posted 12:21pm 13/8/09

$100 it won't be an iphone killer

Given that its targetting Blackberry, you're probably right.

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BillyHardball
Posted 01:24pm 13/8/09

^haha

I would actually really like to be able to use Word and Excel on the go... Hopefully someone does this for iPhone soon!

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3dee
Posted 02:07pm 13/8/09

Documents To Go and QuickOffice billy. Dunno how easy it is to use tho

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TicMan
Posted 02:10pm 13/8/09

"This is giving some of our competitors -- let's spell it out, RIM -- a run for their money," said Nokia Executive Vice President Robert Andersson, to Reuters. "I don't think BlackBerry has seen the kind of competition weApple can provide them now."

Fixed!@

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infi
Posted 08:32pm 13/8/09

Yeah I thought this was what they were announcing, awesome news.

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greazy
Posted 08:36pm 13/8/09

It is awesome news. This is what companies should be doing, joining forces to give us a better product instead of isolating themselves like misers trying to get all the money for themselves.

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Skitza
Posted 08:42pm 13/8/09

The crackberry is f*****g good, this would have to be epic do get near it. Optimistic++;

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darkjedi
Posted 09:54pm 13/8/09

Should be getting my N97 from Nokia for a trial run today :)

See how you go, as I'm yet to see/hear anyone say anything nice about the N97. Their ass-raping of Gizmodo the other week kind of sealed that one for me too (If you missed it, think IGN + McDonalds from a few years back. Just not as much red).

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kos
Posted 03:20am 14/8/09

See how you go, as I'm yet to see/hear anyone say anything nice about the N97.

Shut your eyes whenever infi posts do you?

Office is cool I guess, but I'd much rather they get the f*** off Symbian...

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infi
Posted 09:37am 14/8/09

N97 is my dream phone, if I ever dreamed of phones.

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mongie
Posted 09:53am 14/8/09

Blackberries are pretty good for an end user, but s*** to administer.

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