Microsoft iPhone Apps: Just the Beginning?

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Pete Cashmore
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Microsoft iPhone Apps: Just the Beginning?
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The company's first official app, released today, has been a fun distraction for us this evening: SeaDragon Mobile lets you "View thousands of images over the air, quickly view massive gigapixel images, explore Photosynth collections in 2D, including your own, add your own PhotoZoom / Deep Zoom Composer content [and] subscribe to Deep Zoom RSS feeds."

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You might assume Microsoft will fail to embrace the iPhone. After all, there are scores of great Windows Mobile Apps already, and why promote a rival platform?

And yet...there's Microsoft Office for the Mac, and we've received confirmation that Microsoft's Office Web, a web-based version of Office, will work in Safari and on the iPhone. And as early as March this year, Microsoft had a team investigating the possibilities of Microsoft on the iPhone.

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