Microsoft bringing Office apps to the iPhone?
Even though Apple and Microsoft are enemies on the PC side where they compete in the OS market, it hasn’t stopped the two companies from collaborating on a number of projects, including Office, for example. And according to one report from Fortune, it may happen again.
Fortune is reporting that Microsoft has spent a significant amount of time with the iPhone SDK and has determined that it may be a suitable framework within which to develop Office and other Microsoft products. And considering the fact that Microsoft is the Mac’s largest developer outside of Apple itself, the idea doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch.
Microsoft has ‘confidence’ in developing for iPhone
“We do have experience with that environment, and that gives us confidence to be able to do something,” Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group said. “The key question is, what is the value that we need to bring?”
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