Word documents generated by the latest version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, according to tests run by a document standards specialist.
While most of the excitement concerning Windows and Office centres around the next full versions of the products, Microsoft is also working on the next service pack updates for each offering.
No large Australian organisations are known to be planning an Office 2010 migration, and many have not even completed their move to Office 2007.
Western Australia's Department for Community Development will brave the early adopter stigma and upgrade at least part of its desktop fleet to Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite.
The Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority has become the second Western Australian government department in as many weeks to upgrade to Microsoft's new Office 2007 product.
While elements of Microsoft's Office suite have been in use for more than 20 years, the company now appears unpleasantly convinced that nobody really has any idea how to use the product.
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As you'd expect given Microsoft Office's near-ubiquitous position in the modern workplace, my comments on the company's plans for the recently delayed 2007 release stirred up a few readers.
Pretty much anyone who has been in storage management for more than five minutes knows that it's not enough to simply back everything up and hope for the best.
Office 2007 continues to be the focus of discussion here at Big Deal, but the most recent crop of reactions to my postings have shifted from the possible nuisance value of interface changes to the potential upside for OpenOffice, the open-source rival to the desktop suite crown.
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Organisations considering a change of productivity suites may do well to follow the example of Queensland University of Technology, which has taken a cautious approach to Microsoft Office 2007 and instead focused on sprucing up its back-end messaging environment.
While it doesn't bring the same jaw-dropping interface changes that accompany other modules in the Office 2007 suite, Outlook 2007 does provide a number of new and very useful features, and the interface does change a bit to accommodate some of these new features.
As Microsoft unveils the next version of its flagship Office suite, we ask: is it revolution or evolution?
There appears to be no doubt that Windows 7 will be significantly more popular in Australia than Vista was, a reality that will help Microsoft entrench its wider software portfolio even further into the enterprise.
If you work with Microsoft Outlook on a daily basis, this upgrade can make scheduling simpler and e-mailing more interesting. Still, we wish Instant Search and e-mail rendering were better.
Microsoft plans to mark the business launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 with an event in New York on November 30.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
It's no secret that Microsoft dominates the productivity suite market, but that doesn't mean it's the only way to go.
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