Rumors have been going around for about 12 months of the subject. Through this time, there are applications available that are capable of modifying office files, such as documents or spreadsheets although nothing ‘Microsoft’. Quickoffice is one such application that will be available in April.

Elop discussed a few other matters as well as the comment regarding iPhones. He noted that of the 500 million people who use Office, only 250 million actually pay for it. Elop said that the main fear for Microsoft was of innovation slowing down explaining, “it’s not about having bolding or underlining in the browser… The real threat is if we’re not continuing to innovate.” This level of innovation being the development of online options for Office products as well as moving on to the iPhone.

[via TechCrunch]

Our goal in delivering a Citrix Receiver to an iPhone is to ensure a completely seamless transition from personal to enterprise, all in one device. Virtually millions business critical application run today on Citrix XenApp, and soon enough all of them will be at your fingertips in an iPhone near you. We are following the very same guidelines every other native iPhone app follows, and to ensure that, we have teamed up with our friends at Apple to deliver nothing but the smoothest experience to our users.

The Project name is Braeburn, and they are also building an iPhone community site within their network to share the ideas.

Gizmodo said:

Why is this useful? It will give you the ability to run full Windows apps in your iPhone over the network. According to Citrix, you will have full Windows capability, including cut and paste inside Windows. And while this is not the first remote screen application available for the iPhone, it is the first one which is actually supported by a big company, which will make corporations happy.

So, do you really want to access to Windows on your iPhone remotely? Tell us what you think.

[via Gizmodo]