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Thursday, September 27, 2007

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Microsoft Office Mobile 6.1 Now Available

- Warner Crocker

Mobile Office 6.0Microsoft has rolled out an upgrade to Office Mobile 6.0 that now allows you to read native Microsoft Office 2007 file formats. If you recall, Office 2007 introduced a new file format based on Open XML, but the new file format at the launch of Office 2007 wasn’t available on other platforms. Of course there was a work around by simply saving Office documents in an earlier compatibile format.

Well, for Windows Mobile users you can now use the native Office 2007 format in Windows Mobile with Office Mobile 6.1. You’ll need to have Office Mobile 6.0 installed to use the upgrade, or purchase a version of Office Mobile 6.0 to use this.

Read more about it or download here.

UPDATE: Looks like changes are afoot here, as Microsoft has pulled the info and download page. We'll post more as we have it.



9/27/2007 8:54 AM MST  

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Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:35:43 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Are you kidding me? Office 2007 has been out for nine months, in production obviously since before then, and Microsoft is only now rolling out support for it on their mobile platform? I understand it takes time for third parties to support new MS products, but why does it take nine months for MS to support their own product?
Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:23:55 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Just tried the download onto my XP machine and found out that:

This new version of the Windows Mobile Device Center contains key improvements and new features to support Windows Mobile 6 devices. The Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 is only supported on Windows Vista.
Jack Donohue
Friday, September 28, 2007 12:42:21 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
The link does not work by the way.
Elo
Friday, September 28, 2007 4:57:43 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Got the following when I tried your link:

The download you requested is unavailable. If you continue to see this message when trying to access this download, go to the "Search for a Download" area on the Download Center home page.
Steve
Friday, September 28, 2007 7:31:31 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Sorry , we were caught off guard when Microsoft pulled this yesterday as well. We'll post more when we find out what's going on.
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