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Microsoft blogger accidentally leaks Office Mobile upgrade

Steven Parker   on 28 September 2007 - 11:55 · 7 comments & 4263 views

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A Microsoft employee on Thursday accidentally blogged about an upgrade to Office Mobile that shouldn't be available for another couple of weeks.

The upgrade, when it becomes available, should solve an incompatibility issue that left Windows Mobile 6.0 users unable to read Office 2007 file formats.

Jason Langridge, who works in Microsoft's Windows Mobile group in the U.K., wrote that Office Mobile 6.1 was available and he included a link to the download page. But a representative with Microsoft's external public relations firm said that the upgrade was put up on the site initially for internal testing and was accidentally made available to the public.

The new version of Office Mobile is expected to become available very soon, probably within the next two weeks, he said.

Langridge has not yet removed the post from his blog.

View: Yesterdays post on Neowin
News source: Yahoo! News

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(1 reply) #1 BlackTigerAP on 28 Sep 2007 - 11:59
YOU'RE FIRED!
#1.1 Alto on 28 Sep 2007 - 13:54
...says Alan Sugar
(1 reply) #2 Azmodan on 28 Sep 2007 - 12:26
Accidentally? LOL? I don't wear a tinfoil hat or something, but this was on purpose to make people accept Open XML on mobile devices.
#2.1 jwjw1 on 28 Sep 2007 - 12:55
exactly...its like letting the people smell the gas fumes...before the 'Explosion'
#3 carmatic on 28 Sep 2007 - 13:40
looks like microsoft took down the download....
#4 ThePitt on 28 Sep 2007 - 16:43
"accidentally"... haha... good one
#5 92GTA on 29 Sep 2007 - 05:09
Yeah I downloaded the file and installed the cab that day, lol. It doesn't include OneNote though...

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