Along with the release of Office 2010 beta, Microsoft has also made available the beta for Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Phones via Windows Marketplace. Office Mobile 2010 contains Word, PowerPoint, Excel and SharePoint Mobile. It’s free to try and will work until April 5th, 2010.
Wmpoweruser has published a list of restrictions (via WMExperts) imposed on developers for their apps to be approved for Windows Mobile Marketplace. The restrictions seem to have been totally inspired by Apple, which is really not a good thing. It also means that some previously popular Windows Mobile apps will be ineligible for Windows Marketplace. In a nutshell, here’s what you’ll be missing
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Microsoft seems to be on a role lately. The ‘Laptop Hunters’ series has really put a dent in the egos of Apple followers and Microsoft critics who have been defending the ‘Apple Tax’ and pointing fingers at the ads. The ads have certainly been greeted with a positive response by those towards whom they are targeted at – the average consumers. Now, it seems that Windows Mobile 6.5 will have a good time as well.
This Monday, Microsoft announced its partners for Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The list is huge and contains the heavy weighs of mobile application development. These partners will develop applications which will provide new and unique gaming, social networking, media, utility and personal productivity experiences. The lengthy list includes:
| AccuWeather.com | The Associated Press |
| CNBC | Developer One Mobile Software |
| EA Mobile | |
| Gameloft | Glu Mobile |
| Handmark | Ilium Software Inc. |
| Jeyo Inc. | Kinoma |
| LiteScape | Magmic Games |
| Melodis Corp. | MySpace |
| Namco Networks | Netflix |
| Pandora | PhatWare Corp. |
| Resco s.r.o. | ShoZu Inc. |
| Sling Media Inc. | SBSH Mobile Software |
| Spb Software | Web Information Solutions Inc. |
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Seeing the success of the iPhone as a social networking device, Microsoft has appropriately focused on providing an engaging experience for Windows Phones. Microsoft has created a Facebook app which will launch this April with capabilities to capture video on their phones and upload it to Facebook, something which the current iPhones cant do. A new MySpace application will also be released this summer giving Windows Phone users real time access to their network.
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