AT&T and Microsoft launch Business Service
Reuters | at | by Mike
AT&T Wireless Services is offering a new service that will allow corporate mobile phone and laptop users on the road to tap into information stored on their desktop computers using software from Microsoft. The two companies said the service, called AT&T Wireless WorkWare, will provide seamless, wireless access to software giant Microsoft's applications so users can retrieve e-mail, schedule book, and documents behind corporate firewalls. Unlike many of the services that require technicians to physically set up the devices, AT&T Wireless' service can be activated wirelessly. AT&T Wireless and Microsoft first announced their partnership in July. The alliance was seen as a key step in the world's largest software maker's strategy of taking its software beyond the desktop.