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RIM and Microsoft announce Windows Live services for Blackberry handsets
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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Subscribe to commentsogmanMay 13th 2008 9:12AM
Yet another reason to buy an iPhone.
QuikboyMay 14th 2008 12:08AM
Why so?
ogmanMay 14th 2008 7:59AM
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.
StevenMay 13th 2008 9:37AM
"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.
Danny MendezMay 13th 2008 4:50PM
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.
Chris LambMay 16th 2008 9:55AM
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.