As screenshots from the recently released alpha build of Microsoft Office 14 (which will probably be named Microsoft Office 2009) have emerged, something really interesting has come across, namely Mobile Office Device. It seems to create a portable version of an MS Office application - in this case Word - to be stored and run from a USB memory-stick.

In October 2008 Microsoft revealed that they are readying a crippled version of MS Office for online use, to be released at the same time as Office 14. I doubt that they're going to let the online suite be available for offline use, so maybe the Mobile Office Device can be seen as a way to use MS Office offline, without having to install the suite per computer? I wonder what this means license-wise.

Additionally, will they be able to knock OpenOffice.org Portable from the portable office-suite throne?

Here's a video of a screenshot that I filmed while drawling and regurgitating slightly more about the matter.