Posts Tagged ‘Office Mobile 7’

In a 123-page Chinese Office 2010 PDF document I found residing on Microsoft’s servers, dated December 11, 2009, there’s a slide which essentially mirrors the exact same slide I previously unearthed in an English Office 2010 presentation which mentioned a Spring 2010 RTM date for Windows Mobile 7. Also included in the presentation are the exact same images that make reference to Office Mobile 7 and SharePoint for WM7.

All-in-all, the only significant thing to take away here is the date of the document which shows that — up to as recently as December 11, 2009 — Spring still appears to be the time frame Microsoft is shooting for to RTM Windows Mobile 7… at least, that’s what they’re presenting to various partners/conference participants.

-Stephen
http://www.msftkitchen.com/

*Thanks to Tom Warren for the heads-up.

On Microsoft’s Office 2010 for Mobile website, they have posted an image of the mock-up UI I first discovered in a presentation back in October of this year. Though I’m sure the image may very well be pulled soon (I’m always amazed how this stuff just randomly happens for them), here is how it currently looks:

Although I initially discovered this image in a presentation residing on Microsoft’s download center, this marks the first time they have placed this UI on their site, front-and-center.

-Stephen
http://msftkitchen.com

After a long bout of silence regarding Windows Mobile 7, I’ve finally stumbled across some recent information (where, “recent” = August 2009). Back in May of this year, I posted a slide which contained a Windows Mobile 7 device release date of April 2010, which – at the time – jived well with what Mary Jo Foley had previously reported. According to an Office 2010 presentation recently given to partners, there is a slide maintaining detailing (see update below) a Windows Mobile 7 Spring 2010 RTM time frame.

Also included in the slide designated for, “Office Mobile 2010″ are a couple of, “Office Mobile 7” UI prototype images. They greatly resemble the long-ago leaked Windows Mobile 7 UI prototypes to a, ‘T’. I can’t imagine that Microsoft has chosen to stick with that UI up to this point, so I’m going to take a wild guess that those images are equally as old as aforementioned leaked images they so closely resemble. Not to mention, with Mobile UI concepts like these floating around, I have high hopes for a stunning Windows Mobile 7 UI the likes of which we have yet to see.

With that said, here is a snap-shot of the Office Mobile 2010 slide, along with an image I threw together that includes a better look at the Office Mobile 7 images in the slide:

 

Office Mobile 7

 

If you will notice, those two mock-ups are a bit sloppy. In the left image, you can see the Excel icon sitting on top of the task bar. In the right image, the text in the task bar runs under the center button and outside of the inner gradient border. Despite those, “flaws” (they are mock-ups, after all), this is the first reference to, “Office Mobile 7″ I’ve yet to see. Likewise, this is the first time I’m aware of Microsoft actually showing images of this mock-up UI in a fairly public format. As such, I’ll certainly keep my nose to the grindstone and bring you any further information I can get a hold of!

UPDATE: Mary Jo Foley commented below and provided some valid insight:

The original roadmap showed phones preloaded with WM7 being available in April 2010. So if RTM of WM 7 is spring 2010, that’s about 6 months later than it was supposed to be. The big question is: If they RTM in April 2010 or so, how much of a lag will there be till the OS gets on phones? If MS can take this lag out, as they claim they plan to do, that will help them get to market a little faster.

-Stephen
http://msftkitchen.com