I wonder if what they will offer is seamless (or at least reasonably good) conversion to and from a more portable and lightweight format (in the same way as they do for the Mobile Office products).

This was what Psion did a long while back, and it was very useful, but not everything worked perfectly (no tables for one thing iirc, which is a pita for a then Engineering student).

Anyway I think something like that would be reasonable and useful, certainly more so than needing to run OO on a device with all of its features, etc.

To me it seems rather that Nokia is serious about making maemo a base also for professional use in pocket computers.

I'm looking forward to a race between ARM-maemo
(in the pocket, and possibly in netbooks) and -86-moblin (in netbooks, and possibly in the pocket).

Will ARM stay ahead of -86 in the race for low power?
Will new battery technology make this race less urgent?

Note that Nokia already provides a third-party MSOffice-compatible solution on its E-series phones. It is called QuickOffice and does relatively good job, considering all the hardware limitations.

All of this sort of stuff just makes me chuckle -- my circumstances aside -- about what the world's economy is doing to the global tech market. It's pretty interesting -- and good, imho.

I'm not a MS hater. I'd rather not use their products, but I must for many work-related reasons. But, what if all of this (and I've read other news in other places) will start a trend for MS to move to an even more open philosophy as well? (No time soon, of course, but maybe someday?)

Any alliance between any two (or three, or four, or...) major corporations is always a good thing. Alliances are better than mergers and acquisitions and inherently create a more "open" vibe, regardless of the products that come out of it.

Tim

The one and only thing I want is adding Exchange support to Modest so that I can get my work email without having to use a web browser.

But, you can just use the Exchange Web Portal via Fennec!

Tim

That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid.

This was just a joke. But maybe it means something that so many people took it seriously?...

Exchange is supposed to support IMAP, have you come across any specific interoperability problems with modest?

You have to persuade the M$ admin's to enable imap on the server to do that :-(

evolution supports mapi at the moment, it's not pretty at this time - but it works well enough to struggle with.

http://www.openchange.org/index.php?...d=15&Itemid=49

Maybe someone will help out on this?