Voices » Microsoft Office http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Microsoft, Nokia Take Aim at BlackBerry http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090813/microsoft-nokia-take-aim-at-blackberry/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090813/microsoft-nokia-take-aim-at-blackberry/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:51:29 +0000 Nick Wingfield http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=14349 By Nick Wingfield, Staff Writer, The Wall Street Journal

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Nokia Corp. (NOK), once bitter rivals in the mobile market, formed an alliance to strengthen their positions at a time when other competitors have become far more troublesome.

The deal between the two companies will bring Microsoft’s Office programs and other software to Nokia phones. It is aimed squarely at the professional market that Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) targets so successfully with its BlackBerry line of smart phones.

For Microsoft, the deal is an attempt to increase the appeal of Office–a lucrative franchise that includes Word, Excel and other productivity programs–to a business audience that is being courted by competing products from rivals that range from Google Inc. (GOOG) to Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO). Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we’d all used in office jobs. “You know, I’ve been using Word for over 20 years,” I said, and immediately felt older than dirt. But it was true.

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On April 30, 2007, with all the usual fanfare that accompanies a software update, Microsoft (MSFT) added Barack and Obama to Office’s dictionary. It was a fairly quick canonization for the Illinois senator. His surname had been on Microsoft’s candidate list for new words since Jan. 5 of that year, and his first name followed three days later, in the same recruiting class as Zune, Klum, and Friendster. Three months later, it was official–no longer would Microsoft suggest Boatman as a replacement for the future president’s last name.

Of course, by April 2007, Obama was already a figure of some renown. He’d announced his bid for the Democratic nomination in mid-January and had been an object of intense fascination since his July 2004 speech at the Democratic Convention. But escaping the shackles of Microsoft Word’s red corrugated line is no small feat, and the list of those who’ve made the cut can seem arbitrary: Why does it recognize the surnames of Matthew Broderick and Susan Sarandon but trip over DiCaprio and Blanchett?

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