Just in time with the public availability of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta for the PC, this morning Microsoft also launched the public Beta of Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Mobile-based Windows phones. It's designed to bring the powerful Microsoft Office 2010 tools you use every day at work, home, or school, to the screen of your Windows phone with rich interfaces especially designed for small devices. Office Mobile 2010 Beta allows you to view and edit your Microsoft Office documents. Brand new is the possibility to stay connected to work from anywhere with SharePoint Workspace Mobile and to use PowerPoint Mobile as a presentation aid.

Following Opera Software's Opera Mobile 10 Beta release for Nokia S60 smartphones earlier November, Opera Mobile 10 Beta is now also available for for Windows Mobile-based  smartphones. This version for Windows Mobile users elevates mobile browsing to a desktop-like experience, helping people to search, socialize and stay connected while on-the-go. The Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Windows Mobile looks and feels similar to the Opera 10 desktop browser and Opera Mini 5 Beta. Opera is creating more cohesion between its products by introducing a unified look across many of its platforms. Opera maintains its powerful arsenal of features in this Beta, including Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, a password manager and its super, server-side compressor, Opera Turbo.

As previously announced, Microsoft has just launched its Windows Marketplace for Mobile for Windows Mobile 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphones. Windows Marketplace Mobile, which was just initially launched for Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows phones, allows for searching, browsing and purchasing mobile applications from Windows phones (and since last week form a PC too). The new marketplace will be included with all Windows phones based on Windows Mobile 6.5, but now expands to Windows Mobile 6 and Windows Mobile 6.1, and help consumers to easily find, install and experience those applications that fit their needs and make the phone truly personal.

Since 2000, Microsoft holds every year an invitation-only conference called Möbius and next week, this year's Möbius event takes place again in Seattle. Like many Möbius conferences before, I was happy enough to be invited again and therefore I will fly-out to Seattle tomorrow morning. As with most/all Möbius events, it's a kind of surprising agenda since you don't know what Microsoft and their partners will present but Möbius is about mobility and gadgets and therefore I expect we will get some deep-dive sessions about Windows Mobile, Window phone, services and devices; I'm quite sure it will packed with loads information again.

As expected, Microsoft has launched the PC based shopping and account management Marketplace for Mobile. Starting today, Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows phone customers can browse, buy and download applications online at the Windows Marketplace for Mobile site, straight from the PC. The selected applications are delivered wirelessly to the customer's Windows phone and install the next time the Windows Marketplace client runs on the smartphone. This creates another way for customers to easily find and purchase applications and gives developers a whole new level of exposure.