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Are the mail and calender applications on the Blackjack made by Microsoft?
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Posted by: sygyzy

Is the default, fresh out of the box, email and calendar application on the Blackjack made by MS? Is it supposed to be Microsoft Outlook Mobile? For some reason (particularly since it looks nothing like screen shots I've seen and does not say MS anywhere on it), I don't think it is. If that's the case, where can I get it? My Blackjack box says it it comes with it, as well as support for MS documents such as Powerpoint, Excel, etc.

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Omega2008

Ok well here is where the marketing is misleading. Only Windows Mobile PPC's have Pocket Office completely with Pocket Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Now for bot the PPC and the Smartphone platform Pocket Outlook is there and yes its made by Microsoft. The Calender, Contacts, Tasks, and Messaging make up Pocket Outlook on the device. To view Excel, Word, Powerpoint and PDF's there are a set of viewers made by Clearvue that will let you view those types of documents, of course Clearvue is not made by Microsoft. Thats the misleading part...the Smartphone OS doesn't have the Microsoft made versions of Excel, Powerpoint, and Word. So your phone does support it...just not by a Microsoft app. Hope that clears it up.

Posted by: sygyzy

That is misleading and confusing! I guess to some extent I don't care as long as it works but when I used Pocket PC's, I liked the fact that the Mobile Office programs looked like they were from MS. I guess it's a matter of thinking I am paying for one thing and getting another.