It’s been confirmed to Fortune by Tom Gibbons – head of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group – that the Big Blue will be looking to bring its Office suite to the iSlates.
“To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in that environment, we’re actually in the process of trying to understand that now.”
With the help of the iPhone SDK, the eggheads at Big Blue will also be bringing TellMe, a voice recognition technology that they acquired last year.
So it looks like Microsoft is opening up to the idea of rapidly emerging markets, and that they’re willing to take the plunge a lot sooner than I anticipated – either way, it’s great to see big companies playing nice for a change.
Graham
