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2007 Microsoft Office system (aka Office '12')

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Today we are announcing the details behind the upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system products. We had previously been referring to it as Office "12", but we now have an official name and there is a ton of other information now available about the packaging options too. We've been blogging about this stuff for a long time now, and I think most of you (especially those on Beta 1) realize how huge this upcoming release is. This really is the most significant release of Office in over a decade (and it's been awesome to work on over the past several years). So now for those of you who were wondering when we were going to stop calling it Office '12' (I've also seen people making fun of us for always putting the 12 in quotes) can be satisfied. :-).

There are already a lot of folks using Beta 1, and I've had a ton of great questions from people building solutions on top of the new file formats. If you are interested in learning more about the 2007 Microsoft Office, you can go to the Office preview site: https://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx That's a great place to get more information, and you can even sign up to receive the Beta 2 when it comes out later.

One of the key points that you'll notice is that the 2007 Office system release has some updates to the packaging options available. The big goal in this was to really target and help out specific audiences. For instance, there are specific options for enterprise customers and others for home users, all based around their needs (instead of the "one size fits all" approach).

There are 3 new offerings that I wanted to call out:

  • For volume license customers new capabilities in Office Professional Plus 2007 (an updated release of Pro EE) will include e-forms and ECM support, as well as the addition of Office Communicator
  • Another option for volume license customers is the new Office Enterprise 2007 will build on the Professional Plus and integrate Groove and OneNote to deliver advanced collaboration and mobility solutions
  • For the retail folks, the new Office Home and Student 2007 (an updated release of Student & Teacher Edition) don't require a student or teacher in the household and will replace Outlook with OneNote

There are also two new applications that you might have already heard about:

  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a new offering that will help people create and customize SharePoint Websites and it also is great for building workflow-enabled applications on the SharePoint platform (This is cool, it's is partially based on FrontPage technologies)
  • Office Groove 2007 which is an updated release of the Groove Virtual Office software. If you aren't familiar with Groove, you should really check it out. It helps enable teams to work together inside collaborative workspaces, regardless of their location or connectivity.

We have the Office developer conference coming up in a month, and the Beta 2 release coming up as well, all leading into the release. And with all of that, we also have all the work we're doing in Ecma to standardize the XML formats and to ensure that the file formats are fully documented and there are no barriers to entry. It's going to be a really exciting year.

-Brian

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2006
    Ok.... the individual product naming is fine.  (Office Professional 2007, Office Word 2007, etc.)  But the system: "2007 Microsoft Office System"?  Why in the world is the 2007 first?!

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2006
    OK, I'm finding your packaging to be very frustrating.  First, since I'm a student, I get OneNote (good) but not Outlook?  What's the reason for that?  I mean, admittedly I'm not connecting with an Exchange server, but I do like to have a good quality calendar, especially one that syncs with my phone.  

    Second, why aren't you providing OneNote to a larger number of people?  This is a really good app, and not just for students.  In the next year or two, you're going to have the first set of students to use OneNote moving into the working world.  I, for one, will be demanding that my employer provide it for me.  Why wouldn't you take advantage of that by including it in more packages?  

    Or are you just hoping that we'll all pay extra to fill in the gaps?

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2006
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    February 15, 2006
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    February 15, 2006
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    February 15, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
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    February 16, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    No Outlook in the home/student edition removes me from the potential buyer list -- it's as simple as that.

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    Si que en Microsoft saben darle nombre a sus productos, ahora pueden ver cómo se llamará la próxima versión de Office... Leido en Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=163362) y despuecito en NewWin (http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=32329

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    "I'm not connecting with an Exchange server, but I do like to have a good quality calendar, especially one that syncs with my phone."

    Maybe this is one of the reasons that Windows Vista includes a new Calendar program: to help get home users off of Outlook...

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    My thought on Outlook not being part of the Student/Home Edition is to help drive adoption of Vista.  My understanding is that Outlook Express has been updated in Vista and includes a new Calendar application.  While this may not make much sense now (before Vista is released), in 2+ years it might not look so bad.

    So Vista+S/H Office 2007 == XP+S/T Office 2003

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
    If you're a technical writer, and you haven't registered as a beta participant for what was formerly called Microsoft Office "12", I can only ask - why???It's a revolutionary step forward in the way Office works. I've been working with..

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2006
    When & where is the Office Developer's Conference?

  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2006
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    February 18, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2006
    I've tried to register several times. I always got this page not found error. (after the first fill-in page).
    http://www.microsoft.com/library/errorpages/smarterror.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/office/preview/thankyou.mspx

    It seems to be looking for the thankyou page, but I'm not sure if I am registered.

  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2006
    Kjempe kuuuul hjemmeside du har.

  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2006
    Microsoft programs are bug-ridden ,over-bloated,and over -priced.

    We need Microsoft to go back to basics.and build a much simpler version of Windows.

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