{"id":996,"date":"2013-06-24T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2013-06-24T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:40:17","slug":"blackberry-and-microsoft-office-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry and Microsoft Office 2013&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking&#8230;\u00a0 &#8220;What does this have to do with Linux&#8230;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The truth is folks, I have a day job.\u00a0 My company uses Office 2013 and Exchange.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m a happy BlackBerry user&#8230; normally&#8230; I mean I love my Bold2, and it works great in every respect, but when the heck is the BlackBerry Desktop Software going to get updated to start working with Microsoft Office 2013!?!?!<\/p>\n<p>I write this after just having updated to the latest release of the Desktop software, Bundle 42.\u00a0 And in a way, that&#8217;s the worst part; every update that comes out gives me some hope that the sync will finally work&#8230;\u00a0 And then&#8230;\u00a0 Hopes are dashed.<\/p>\n<p>For pete&#8217;s sake, I updated to Office 2013, and for more than half a year have not had calendar synchronization capability with my corporate account.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to have to get a Q10 just to get Office\/Calendar sync.\u00a0 I mean I *might* get a Q10 someday, but I have a contract for my Bold2 and will likely have it another year.\u00a0 And, the way things are looking, its another year without sync, if BlackBerry doesn&#8217;t show some love to the customers on their existing large footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is mostly a rant.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone out there have any news of future support?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve looked around and found almost nothing.\u00a0 Please drop a comment if you have heard anything&#8230;\u00a0 But please don&#8217;t just tell me to get rid of the BlackBerry, unless you are willing to completely pay for the device and service replacement&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking&#8230;\u00a0 &#8220;What does this have to do with Linux&#8230;?&#8221; The truth is folks, I have a day job.\u00a0 My company uses Office 2013 and Exchange.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m a happy BlackBerry user&#8230; normally&#8230; I mean I love&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/?p=996\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[125,124],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackberry","tag-blackberry-desktop-software","tag-microsoft-office-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnjn1-g4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}