Mobile Device Support

Many organizations are intrigued by the ever-present concept of further enabling productivity between mobile users and office-bound employees. Office Web Apps offer a toolset that can be investigated for this purpose and provide a reduced set of tools that are better suited for devices with small screens. Of course, the SharePoint environment needs to be accessible from the outside world for this functionality to be useful, and the organization needs to thoroughly test the different supported devices.

A primary limitation is the small size of the screens on the mobile devices, but new features such as panning and zooming and more powerful processors in the devices make the experience more tolerable than in the past.

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