Glide Mobile adds Microsoft Word support to the iPhone

Who says iPhone can only view Word documents. Well, I do. But now thanks to Glide Mobile — which previously brought Windows Media support to the iPhone — users of the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s handset can now edit, format and share their Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Word documents.

Glide Write 2.0 — part of Glide Mobile offering — is not a native iPhone app. Rather it relies on AJAX-based technology to deliver the MS Word-like experience through the built-in Safari web browser. While this may sound too-slow-to-be-useful — it is slower to be fair — bear in mind that thanks to the web environment, the collaboration element is built inside Glide’s product/service. What this means is that more than a single person can work on a document, while emailing and chatting with others at the same time.

All the editing capabilities are there, hence you can format the text and even insert photos, music, video, documents, bookmarks or calendar events. Then, once the document has been created, you can export it to Microsoft Word, PDF or RTF and take it from there.