I planned to upgrade my Office Mobile 2007 to 2010. I searched every tiny bit of PITA Ribbon UI as well as ActiveSync/Win7 Mobile Center settings, can't find where to install Office Mobile. So I looked up help manuals and Microsoft Social forums. Still no result. I tried enumerate all .cab files on my harddisk, the only one I can find is OneNoteMobile.cab from Onenote 2007. I even tried re-install Office 2010 with all components from setup iso. Fuck I just can't know where to get office Mobile 2010

After some Googling I realized Microsoft and their so smart-ass Office team didn't provide Office Mobile 2010 install cab files in their retail disk or msi. You can only) get it from Windows Phone Market Place. It turned out to be another epic nightmare journey.

WinPhone Marketplace website UI is absolutely confusing shit. I searched for Office 2010 and it give me this:

How the fuck could I determine which one to choose?

So I opened all of the 3 apps.

The page opened, with absolutely no idea what's going on and what to do next.

HOW THE FUCK DO I GET THEM? There is no single download button or instruction or hint or anything.

Next I realized you can only get these apps on cellphone with Marketplace client installed. Even the motherfucking Marketplace client can only be downloaded from cellphone, not on a PC then transfer to phone. While China Mobile 2.75G EDGE cmwap Internet connection is expensive as fuck, even their Marketplace URL is long enough to piss you off, you must at least type mp.windowsphone.com to open the site.

What did I get?

It a 349KB bootstrapper, to download a 748KB real Marketplace client. In other words 1/3 of the bandwidth is consumed for crap.

The funny thing is, now the Office Mobile 2010 didn't even show up on Marketplace app.

The webpage encoding is even messed up in WinMobile 6.5 Internet Explorer

Nice work, Microsoft! I give up.

My conclusion is that, app store model is great harm to our information freedom and software manipulativity. There is too much encapsulation, region/language lock and censorship. Long live the 0day scene and warez 4 life!