Microsoft is no stranger to the idea of playing in a competitor's sandbox (remember Office for Mac?). By making Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail more accessible on the Crackberry, the company further pushes its communications services towards mass standardization especially in the business world. RIM also benefits from the agreement in the same way Apple benefits from Office for Mac: an OS is only as good as the software on it.
Messenger on Blackberry should retain most of its functions. It looks like users will be able to do the usual: IM, set status, pull up buddy lists, save conversations, use emoticons, and even send and receive files. While it looks like users can join group chats, creating group chats seems to be absent from the feature list.
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5-13-2008 @ 9:12AM
ogman said...
Yet another reason to buy an iPhone.
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5-14-2008 @ 12:08AM
Quikboy said...
Why so?
5-14-2008 @ 7:59AM
ogman said...
Because I've had Windows software on mobile devices before and found it less than stable. I like my phones to actually work and any Windows software on them is enough to make me look elsewhere.
5-13-2008 @ 9:37AM
Steven said...
"RIM also benefits from the agreement in the same way Apple benefits from Office for Mac: an OS is only as good as the software on it."
Oh give me a break. Are you saying that the Mac OS wouldn't be good if it didn't have Office on it? I beg to differ.
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5-13-2008 @ 4:50PM
Danny Mendez said...
No, that's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is: RIM and Apple benefit greatly from allowing official software and services to be installed from one of the biggest (if not biggest) software makers in the world.
5-16-2008 @ 9:55AM
Chris Lamb said...
Just want to point out that RIM also announced expansion of their long relationship with IBM Lotus by releasing their new Blackberry client for Lotus Connections, IBM's social software for business. http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=1550.
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