Run Windows Mobile 6 office on Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones

From the "why didn't Microsoft just go and do this themselves" file: Hackers have liberated the Mobile Office features of Windows Mobile 6 and wrapped them up into a nice installer that runs just fine on Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones.

Since Microsoft decided that Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone users didn't need word processing, spreadsheets, or presentations, the only way to get those features up until now was to buy a third-party program like Dataviz DocumentsToGo.

You can reportedly save memory on your device by using UPX to compress the executable files. You'll need .NET 2.0 Framework in order for Mobile Office to work.

And there's no option to create new documents in the smartphone version of Mobile Office, so the best thing to do is to create some blank Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents on your desktop and copy them to your device. Now all you have to do is open those blank documents, edit them, and save as new documents whenever you want to create a file.

[via Tech[dot]Blog]

Tags: mobile office, MobileOffice, windows mobile 5.0, windows mobile 6, WindowsMobile5.0, WindowsMobile6, wm5, wm6