There has been some speculation recently about Office “12″ product naming. Steve Bink of Bink.nu has recently attended an IT Forum, where the Office “12″ demos were branded as Office 2007.
Hopefully, this does not mean Office “12″ is going to be late (it was supposed to be released on late 2006)
Technoarti tags: Microsoft, Office, Vista
Tags: Microsoft, Office 12, Office 2007
Cyndy Wessling, a program manager in Office, started blogging about the PDF functionality in Office 12.
Check her blog out at http://blogs.msdn.com/cyndy_wessling/default.aspx.
Tags: Office 12, Office 2007
Jensen is a PM on the Office 12 UX team and his blog will focus on the new UI of Office 12.
Should be interesting…
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/09/12/464350.aspx
Tags: Office 12, Office 2007
You can watch screenshots of Office 12 at http://pdc.xbetas.com/?page=o12preview1
Bill Gate’s keynotes should start in about 10 minutes and should be an interesting to watch…
Tags: Office 12, Office 2007
Microsoft has announced that the next version of Microsoft Office will use a new open XML file formats by default.
Ok… Didn’t we already have XML formats in Office 2003?
The thing is these XML formats were very limited. They were not the default formats, they were very large and had limited functionality (for example, Excel sheet features like graphs etc were not supported by the XML format).
The new XML format addresses all these problems…
This means that full featured office documents can be easily created from company data (ERP etc) by simple XML transformation rather than using more complex solutions like using the interop mechanism, XML data sources etc.
Microsoft is making a lot of effort to make Office 12 easier for integration with backend systems.
This is befitial to Microsoft because the apeal for organizations to upgrade their office system will be much greater
if there are lots of backend-Office integrations products out there (such as SAP-Microsoft Mendocino).
So I guess we’ll see more features like this that open Office to the world….
Links:
The official Press Release
Brian Jones on the new Office XML formats
Tags: Microsoft, Office 12, Office 2007
