[DeadmanN8]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPOKTomLiQ

Native microsoft office apps on belle. Also in the video they say it a 2 part update with the first part by the end of the year and the second part in the first half of next year.

[thetao]

Well, that's one strike against Belle.

[lillracksingen]

Why is that bad? QuickOffice is better, or you think there should be no office suite on Belle phones at all?

[Vaidovesta]

Nokia Smartphone without Office? No Ways!!!!!!!

[DeadmanN8]

This is not a bad thing.

I for one will find this really useful and to see that Microsoft is developing software for the symbian platform is great.

[bumblebirra]

ditto to the positive responses.

[jraduga]

here is a copy of the article http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Blogs/blog/nokia-developer-news/page/3

And it says

Microsoft business apps coming to Nokia Symbian Belle smartphones

pkrass | 19 September, 2011 17:09

Nokia recently announced that updates to its Symbian Belle smartphones will deliver a suite of Microsoft productivity applications and supplement security and manageability features. The free updates, called Microsoft Apps, will require no additional infrastructure. The first updates will appear by the end of this year, with broad consumer availability arriving in early 2012.
Microsoft Apps will bring collaboration and productivity tools that include: Microsoft Lync 2010 Mobile; Microsoft OneNote; Microsoft PowerPoint Broadcast; and Microsoft Document Connection, which provides Microsoft SharePoint access. In addition, an update in the first half of 2012 will introduce Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as native applications for the first time outside the Windows platform.
Microsoft Apps will be delivered via software update over the air or via PC download. They will run on the following Nokia smartphones: Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia E7, Nokia E6, Nokia X7, Nokia 700, Nokia 701, Nokia 600, and Nokia Oro. Looking ahead, Nokia will work with Microsoft to provide mobile device management of Symbian Belle devices through Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012.
Learn more about the Microsoft business updates for Nokia’s Symbian Belle smartphones.

Pretty cool ay.

[blitzkid]

The general response to Microsoft apps in symbian is positive... But one has to wait and see how many of the apps that Microsoft provides are really useful and how many are going to be thrust upon us.

[OriginalLucy]

I think that any integration of Microsoft office apps to the symbian smartphone is a good idea.  Most of us are pc users and the ability to move information between the pc and the smartphone easier is a great thing.  I want my contacts and docs to move between outlook and word. life could be simple once again. 

[Ztuka]

This is great news.

MS Office Apps For Symbian

OneNote is just the best and underated by many.

[ajaydavidson]

What about the apps registration?

[jraduga]

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Ztuka wrote:

This is great news.

MS Office Apps For Symbian

OneNote is just the best and underated by many.

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I agree with Onenote. it is pretty cool. I use it alot especially at work, although i think i am the only one out 250 other people on my floor.
People just dont seem to understand it, or understand how easy it is to keep update and shared amongst others.

[jraduga]

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blitzkid wrote:
The general response to Microsoft apps in symbian is positive... But one has to wait and see how many of the apps that Microsoft provides are really useful and how many are going to be thrust upon us.

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To a certain extent, you are right. Quiet a few of the apps are really business orientated, requiring connection to servers. Lync for example is more or less a MSN chat equalivent for the business world. Sharepoint is another that is really just business based. Not many people are going to have sharepoint servers in their house or lync servers etc like I do. For me they will be useful.

Many of the other apps will be fine for most people and very useful. So I guess we will just have to wait and see what comes packaged with the update. Maybe we will be able to pick and choose the parts that we want.

But for anyone to be investing in the symbian platform no matter who they are, it has to be a positive thing. And the fact that Microsoft is prepared to make these kinds of apps work with symbian, can really only mean that we are likely to have symbian with us for some time to come. Which i beleive is definietly a good thing. 

[blitzkid]

@ jraduga
You're certainly right about one thing and that is Microsoft investing in symbian is good for us symbian lovers. It'll certainly extend its life and get more out of symbian.