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Microsoft releases Office Mobile for Android phones (tablets need not apply)

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Microsoft Wednesday added Android to the list of mobile operating systems now supported by Office Mobile. But Office Mobile for Android only covers phones, not tablets, limiting its utility.

The Android version, Office Mobile for Android, is also arguably the weakest of the bunch, in terms of compatibility with Microsoft Office. Microsoft is still tacitly encouraging users to buy Windows Phones, which come preloaded and activated with Windows Mobile and don’t require an Office 365 subscription to use. The problem is, within the Android world, there are a number of other office solutions that provide very good direct competition to Microsoft’s offering.

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Holding your phone vertically allows you to edit your PowerPoint slides.

Nevertheless, Office Mobile for Android is free and downloadable from the Google Play Store. The only requirement is that your phone must contain Android 4.0 or higher, and you must already have purchased Office 365.

In a break with Office Mobile for iPhone, Microsoft doesn’t even offer the option to purchase Office 365 from within the app; instead, users must sign up outside the application itself. And without Office 365, Office Mobile for Android is virtually useless.

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Microsoft Pulls Stock Market Higher Today

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By Travis Hoium, The Motley Fool

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Earnings season began last night with first-quarter results from aluminum maker Alcoa. Profit was slightly ahead of estimates, but revenue was a little bit disappointing, so its stock is flat today. But the rest of the market is looking past Alcoa’s ho-hum quarter and surging higher today, driven by tech. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 0.59% near the end of trading, and the S&P 500 has risen 0.58%.

Microsoft stock is the biggest mover on the Dow today, climbing 4%. The company is teaming up with Nokia, Oracle, and a number of other tech companies to put pressure on the EU to take action against Google search and Android. They contend that Google’s open-source software gives the company an unfair advantage over companies that charge for operating systems and diverts mobile search traffic to Google. This is a strong coalition, and investors are giving Microsoft a chance at breaking Android’s hold on the mobile market and making extra market share for Windows Mobile and Bing. Only time will tell whether the complaint is successful. If it is, it could be a big catalyst for Microsoft stock.

It’s been a frustrating path for Microsoft stock investors, who have watched the company fail to capitalize on the incredible growth in mobile over the past decade. However, the company is looking to make a splash in this booming market. In this brand-new premium report on Microsoft, our analyst explains that while the opportunity is huge, the challenges are many. He’s also providing regular updates as key events occur, so be sure to claim a copy of this report now by clicking here.

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HP launches free service to secure mobile, Web apps

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HP says it now has a free service called “Fortify My App” that lets anyone building mobile or Web applications upload code to the Fortify software-as-a-service and get a limited analysis about whether the code has specific vulnerabilities or design flaws.

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How HP Fortify on Demand works

The free service is still considered to be in beta, according to Mike Armistad, vice president and general manager of enterprise security products at Fortify, a division of HP.

But the idea is that anyone can visit the “Fortify My App” site to receive a free report within 24 hours about their client/server Web application or mobile app, whether it be for iPhone, Google Android, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry.

The service focuses on a limited number of specific vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting, Armistad says.

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New Citrix Enterprise Mobility Cloud Report: iOS Leads, App Blacklisting on the Rise

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New Citrix Enterprise Mobility Cloud Report: iOS Leads, App Blacklisting on the Rise

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Today, Citrix released its Enterprise Mobility Cloud Report, revealing key trends that are shaping the enterprise mobility market. Despite a sharp increase in Google Android devices enrolled in Europe, Apple iOS still leads in enterprise mobility worldwide. iOS is also the preferred platform in many vertical industries, such as retail and restaurants. The report also details trends in how enterprises are dealing with apps and security policies, with a rise in mobile app blacklisting, including Facebook and Dropbox. The Citrix Enterprise Cloud Mobility Report for Q4 2012 is based on aggregate data from Citrix customers who have deployed enterprise mobility in the cloud.

iOS Leads in the Enterprise Market; Android Grows Quickly in EMEA

iOS continued to lead in the enterprise as the mobile platform of choice with 58 percent of all global devices enrolled. Android lost two percentage points globally and Windows Mobile remained the same at 7 percent of devices.

Android was the fastest growing platform for enrolled devices in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa with an 11 percent gain from the prior quarter to 36 percent of the region. Apple saw its iOS penetration drop from 56 percent to 43 percent share of enrolled devices in the same region, and Windows Mobile gained 2 percent share to 21 percent.

Vertical Trends in Mobile Platform Adoption

iOS was the preferred platform for enrolled devices in vertical industries in which mobile users engage their customers one-on-one, such as in retail and restaurants. Android was the preferred platform for those with mobile field service organizations, such as in transportation and utilities. The largest adopters of Android were healthcare (a preponderance of which are home healthcare organizations who have deployed cloud-based enterprise mobility), and transportation. The largest adopters of iOS include the legal and insurance industries.

App Management Trends

Organizations have become more aggressive on app blacklisting, with 18 percent of customers deploying this policy, an increase of 11 percent from the prior quarter. Often associated with corporate-issued line-of-business use cases, a rise in blacklisting indicates an increase in such deployments.

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Google Android Antitrust Problem as It Replaces Windows

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Two things happened very recently that might halt the adoption of Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system, which is used in the majority of smartphones around the world. The first is that the China Academy of Telecommunication Research voiced concerns about the ubiquity of the Android OS among phones sold in the People’s Republic. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the organization stated that, “Chinese enterprises have generally used Android as a foundation to optimize and develop [products].”

The other involves Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and its long-standing fight with the European Union over the dissemination of its browser. The EU has continued to insist the Microsoft has failed to make other browsers readily available on its Windows OS. The Financial Times reports that the fine could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

As most of the features of computers used by consumers have moved off the PC and onto the smartphone, the power of Windows has been undercut by the adoption of Android. If this is the evolution of software adoption, Android faces the same fate Windows did a generation ago. Governments will begin to view — or already have — Android’s place in the universe of consumer software as too powerful. That means antitrust officials will press Google to neuter the product. A legal battle between the search company and a number of government authorities is bound to erupt.

Only a very few years ago, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the likely target of antitrust activity. The use of its iOS rose relentlessly with the sale of its phones, Macs and tablets. The iTunes store dominated the dissemination of music. Apple also ruled the app universe as it distributed hundreds of millions of apps from a “store” that offered hundreds of thousands of products. The size and distribution strength of the Google app store now almost equals that of Apple. And Android has eclipsed iOS, Windows Mobile and Symbian as the software preferred by smartphone makers.

The tension between governments and software companies is a natural one. Software can become dominant more quickly than most products. Operating systems spread into markets quickly in a way physical products cannot. With equal swiftness, the systems can seize positions that allow them to distribute money-making products or products that add muscle to their market share with products attached to the OS. In Microsoft’s case, the offending product is its browser. With Google, the offense could be its search technology, maps or app store.

Google’s Android system has a troubled future, brought on by its own success.

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Microsoft made a mistake with its mobile strategy, says Bill Gates

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Ever since the iPhone debuted in 2007, Microsoft has struggled to adapt to the quickly changing smartphone world—and company Chairman Bill Gates knows it. “There’s a lot of things, like cellphones, where we didn’t get out in the lead very early,” Gates said in an interview with Charlie Rose that recently aired on CBS This Morning. “We didn’t miss cellphones, but the way we went about it didn’t allow us to get the leadership. So it’s clearly a mistake.”

Microsoft was very late to adapt to change as Apple’s iPhone and handsets loaded with Google’s Android mobile operating system exploded in popularity. The software giant finally got its act together in late 2010 when it released Windows Phone 7, a touch-centric, attractive looking mobile OS that replaced the decrepit Windows Mobile platform.

Despite a positive critical reception, however, Windows Phone 7 wasn’t a smash hit. By early 2012, in fact, market research firm Nielsen said Windows Phone claimed fewer users than the aging Windows Mobile platform in the U.S.

There are many opinions about why Windows Phone 7 failed. Overall, however, poor carrier support, a comparatively sparse third-party app store, and Windows Phone‘s unique interface kept users from adopting the new smartphone lineup en masse. In September 2012, a month prior to the launch of Windows Phone 8, Microsoft handsets claimed about 3.6 percent of U.S. smartphone users, according to metrics firm comScore.

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