Microsoft on Wednesday offered further details on the next version of Office, announcing plans for a new home version as well as new server-based products and a new high-end enterprise edition of the desktop suite.
Microsoft plans to make some of the security improvements and features it built into Office 2007 available for Office 2003, a company representative said on Thursday.
The next version of Microsoft Office will be "dramatically better" as a platform for creating applications, according to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect.
Microsoft has notified potential testers that it expects to release the first beta version of Office 12 in the next few weeks.
Microsoft plans to muscle into two markets next year, work flow and enterprise content management, using its time-tested techniques of exploiting its desktop dominance and appealing to developers.
Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
Microsoft's chairman looks ahead to how the music player might morph and tells why changes in Office 2007 are "such a big deal."
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Linux users can now run Office XP on Linux following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system.
OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft's Office application suite. It is fantastic if you need basic office applications such as a word processor or spreadsheet at no cost. However, large organisations and power users may be disappointed by its lack of features and support.
Developers of alternative office software need to place more emphasis on ease of conversion if they ever wish to de-throne Microsoft.
Microsoft is moving ahead with plans to more tightly integrate the development of Windows, Office and its other programs--and much of these efforts are tied to Longhorn.
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Microsoft Office may be the standard, but there are a variety of competitors--old and new--that look like giving it a decent run for its money.
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