Microsoft ready to alpha new Office 14
If someone does not stick the stapler in jelly
SOFTWARE GIANT MICROSOFT is getting reading to lift the kimono on its forthcoming version of Office.
According to a company bog, Volish minions will begin alpha testing the next version of Office in November or December.
Hayley Rixon, who works on the Microsoft business intelligence team, says that Vole is marshalling punters to be part of a technology adoption program (TAP) that will give them an early opportunity to test the monitoring and analytics components of Office Performance Point Server (OPPS).
OPPS is business performance analysis software that will be a part of the Office 14 release.
The deadline for submissions to be a part of the OPPS alpha project will be August 28, according to the post.
Vole has told the world practically nothing about Office 14, although it will probably have a lot more collaboration facilities than earlier versions.
The announcement was made in Rixon's bog, which has since disappeared from Vole's bogsight.
We hope she is ok. µ
Comments
Who needs it.....
I've got OpenOffice. Why would I pay for this bloatware crap?Who needs it indeed.
Who needs it. Office 95 more than met my needs. Office 97 similarly more than met my needs. In fact, I can't think of *any* feature of any MS Office application that has been added since before the year 2000 that I have ever used, or seen used.I'll go further, I would bet that the vast majority (95+%) of users could be using MS Ofice for Windows NT (which predates Office 95) without any impact on their productivity or quality of work.
MS Office is a bigger scam than Windows. MS should be sued for the constant churn of this application with it's increasingly complex file formats that are always incompatible with previous versions thus forcing business users to upgrade.
Office ought to be a one off purchase with free bug fixes. With a fairly nominal ongoing maintenance fee to give access to functionality upgrades. There is just no reason for anyone to fork out for Office any more when their needs can be met by a 10+ year old version of the same application suite, or by a free open source application.
Innovation
Reinventing the wheel is such a reliable source of cash during hard times. I wonder what they'll think of after borrowing the ribbon concept, now let's see. The string? The elastic band? The patchwork quilt? As long as it's different enough for the average consumer, i'm sure it'll sell like hot-cakes.How to lose business
Customers are unhappy with Vista:-Tell them Windows 7 will be a point release.
Customers have realised that Orifice 2007 breaks compatibility:-
Release a new version.
Customers have released we sh!t:-
Advertise more.
Why not?
Office 2007 was a leap forward in ease of use.....once you got used to it of course (hmmm). Plus some of the other little tid bits across all the apps made it a rather nice release.Office 14, will build on this and the integration into collab and BI.......will be interesting to see what coming.
And whilst there is a place in this world for the liese of Open Orifice, it really doesnt fdo it for me in a home envirtonment or the business I work in.
But each to their own,
Communists
All who writes: "Who needs a new version of office? " are communists. You are not forced to buy the new office! I am so tired of all these socialists who clams that they dont need new technology. We don't need faster then 2400 baud internet. We don't need 3G phones and so on. They who think that should be forced to only use the old technology.Great Option to Google Apps
Certainly great news for MS Office users. The only real argument in favor of Google's collaboration applications was the able to access them on any web browser.Now users can retain the comfort of Office and have the benefits of web 2.0. It would be especially beneficial for users of collaboration software which integrate with MS Office, like HyperOffice.
Software like HyperOffice are especially a good alternative to Google's solutions because Google's terms of service make all data flowing through google's solutions its own propriety. This is unnaceptable for businesses whose critical business data lies on the collaboration solution.