Web Components for the Pocket PC?

[Ramzi Labban]

Are there or will there be Office Web COmponents that
will run on a Pocket PC?

I am very interested in accessing OLAP data using a
Pivottable from my Pocket PC wirelessly. Anyone has any
idea if that is possible?

 

[Ronny Ong]

The only way to accomplish that today on a Pocket PC is via the Terminal
Services client. There have been solutions which use OWC on a server to
deliver static HTML to Pocket PC, but you can't run OWC directly on Pocket
PC and you probably never will. By definition, Pocket PC 2002 and successors
only run on StrongARM/XScale processors rather than the full range of
processors supported by Windows CE. That means Pocket PC can't run x86 code,
and OWC is strictly x86. (Notice that no versions of Microsoft Office for
the Mac have ever included OWC.) As of Windows Mobile 2003, Pocket Excel
itself does not support Pivot Tables, so there is no implementation of Pivot
Tables for StrongARM/XScale which could be used as the basis for a
comparable web component.