Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Microsoft Announces Business IM Plans for Windows Mobile
Posted by Darius Wey in "NEWS" @ 02:00 AM
"Microsoft is betting it's not just teenagers who want to send instant messages to each other via cell phone. The company is working on software to allow devices that use Windows Mobile to connect to a corporate IM server running Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005, Microsoft said on Monday... The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said customers have been asking it to move its business messaging software beyond the PC. "People are saying we really need this to be integrated with our mobile devices," Ed Simnett, group product manager at Microsoft, said."
Although Simnett has announced the plan to bring business IM to Windows Mobile devices, he also stated that it is highly unlikely that this software will surface anytime this calendar year. It has been claimed though that it will run on Pocket PC devices running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition or later, but since it will be a while before we see this, I wouldn't be surprised if the initial version of Windows Mobile 2003 is included in the list of supported operating systems. But then again, based on past experiences, I would be surprised if it was included too. ;)
Although Simnett has announced the plan to bring business IM to Windows Mobile devices, he also stated that it is highly unlikely that this software will surface anytime this calendar year. It has been claimed though that it will run on Pocket PC devices running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition or later, but since it will be a while before we see this, I wouldn't be surprised if the initial version of Windows Mobile 2003 is included in the list of supported operating systems. But then again, based on past experiences, I would be surprised if it was included too. ;)
