Today Microsoft Senior Product Manager Augusto Valdez hosted a forum Q&A session about the Office HUB and email and calendar integration and productivity. There are lots of things we’ve already known, but a few answers are worth sharing which I’ve edited a bit for your sake. I’m also categorizing them and changing the order of the questions/answers to make it a lot easier. A lot of question are almost the same but I think they’re different enough to leave them in. I’ve highlighted a few that I found particularly interesting, especially the fact that there may not be network access to docs out of the box.
SYNCHRONIZATION
Q: Can Office documents be sync’d directly to a PC or will all synchronization be through the cloud?
A: it will have to go through email or SharePoint. We use SkyDrive for OneNote syncing but not for documents, the easiest way to sync a document for now will be to email the document(s) to yourself
Q: Is there any support for accessing files on network shares in the plans for the Office Hub/WP7 in general?
A: right now the file access in networks is restricted to SharePoint access, as it provides a better control on versions and things like that
Q: Will OfficeHub have integration with Microsoft Cloud computing on a business level and additionally on a consumer level?
A: That is an interesting question, for sync docs you can use both SharePoint Server (on premise) or BPOS (SharePoint Online). For OneNote you can even use Windows Live skydrive to sync over the air your notes with your PC
