Microsoft slams iPhone as irrelevant: News - Hardware - ZDNet Australia

Microsoft slams iPhone as irrelevant: News - Hardware - ZDNet Australia: "Apple's soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a 'closed device' and does not support Microsoft Office, a senior executive with the software giant said this week.
'It's a great music phone, and I'm sure it will be fantastic and have an interesting user interface,' Microsoft's Asia-Pacific head of smartphone strategy Chris Sorenson told press during a recent visit to Australia.
'However, it's a closed device that you cannot install applications on, and there's no support for Office documents. If you're an enterprise and want to roll out line of business applications, it's just not an option. Even using it as a heavy messaging device will be a challenge,' the executive added.
One hundred and forty phone models already run Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, while Apple's new device is not expected to hit the US market until June, and Australia in 2008. The Windows mobile devices have picked up a significant portion of the converged device market, although they are up against the dominance of Nokia and its Symbian OS, Research in Motion and its BlackBerry OS, and decreasingly, Palm."