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The june 4th edtion of Exchange & Outlook UPDATE newsletter of .NET Magazine has some new info on the next version of Office:
FIRST LOOK AT OFFICE 11.0?
Product cycles seem to be getting shorter and shorter. Even though Microsoft
Office XP became available in stores just a year ago, Microsoft is already
starting to provide clues to the next version of Office. (I'll call it Office
11.0 because Microsoft has been consistent with the actual version numbers:
Office XP applications are at version 10.0; Office 2000 is 9.0; Outlook 98 is
8.5; and Office 97 is 8.0.)
Earlier this spring, a Macromedia Flash presentation surfaced that reportedly
came from a survey conducted on Microsoft's behalf. The presentation showed
browser application windows for a product labeled Office .NET and said the
product was code-named Office NGO (which possibly stands for Next Generation
Office). These windows showed online team workspaces built with Microsoft
SharePoint Team Services, inbound and outbound fax capability, scheduling and
meeting tools, and an email Inbox for consolidating messages from multiple
accounts. The presentation explained that these subscription-based services
would work with the Office NGO software installed on the user's computer and
that the desktop software might be available on a subscription basis as well as
through standard licensing. (To see the presentation screen shots, go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/office_ngo_preview.asp
.)
My favorite feature is the meeting workspace, which uses one screen to maintain
the agenda, documents to be discussed, a list of attendees, and a list of action
items. I know of only two similar tools that integrate with Outlook today:
M-Path from SMART Technologies ( http://www.smarttech.com ) and Meeting 2000
from RoweBots ( http://www.rowebots.com ). "Meetingware" could be a logical area
for Microsoft to expand into, especially if the Office team recognizes that this
software category's potential goes way beyond what might be possible just in an
Exchange environment.
I don't know how close the Flash presentation comes to what Microsoft is
actually considering, but the emphasis on online collaboration seems right on
target. However, Heikki Kanerva, director of Office program management, said in
an online chat last month that there is "no product that some folks refer to as
Office .NET." Kanerva did confirm that team collaboration is one of two major
themes for the next version of Office.
To expand on the idea of the second theme, individual empowerment, Kanerva said,
"Making it possible and easy for people to find the right data, to connect to
it, and then analyze and make the right decision based on it on a timely basis
is making individuals more efficient and empowered." Kanerva didn't talk about
any specific features in Outlook or other Office products.
Office 11.0 will focus on XML, SharePoint Portal Server, and SharePoint Team
Services, Kanerva said, and will make communicating through email, Instant
Messaging (IM), phones, PDAs, Tablet PCs, and other devices easier and more
efficient. Although Kanerva said that the Office team is concerned about
security, document corruption, and crash recovery, he made no promises to fix
any specific bugs that exist in current Office versions.
Continued support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) apparently is also
part of the plan for Office 11.0 and beyond. Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's senior
vice president for Office, recently reassured Office developers who've been
concerned that future Office versions will have a programming language as
different from VBA as Visual Basic .NET is from Visual Basic (VB). Sinofsky said
that Microsoft is committed to full support for VBA for at least two full
product cycles (i.e., for Office 11.0 and the version after that).
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Source:
The june 4th edtion of Exchange & Outlook UPDATE newsletter
of .NET Magazine
The Word 2002 Update: 25th April 2002 This offers you the highest levels of performance and security available for Microsoft Word. This update is part of Microsoft's continued effort to provide the latest product updates to customers. This update prevents Word from running ActiveX controls without warning when the user is using Word to edit e-mail messages with Outlook configured to disable script. Requirements: Office 2000 SR-1 or Office XP SP-1 depending on which version of Office you have installed.
Download: Word 2002 Update - wrd1003.exe
For administrators to update their Office Install point (.msp) wrd1003a.exe
Office XP SP1 Speller Update: April 25, 2002 Refreshes the dictionary of words referenced by Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 1 (SP1). Some of the updated terminology comes from the following areas: Surnames, street names, and company names. Computer and communications technology terms. Geographical place names and language names. Improved quality of replacement suggestions. This update adds additional city names to the English dictionary in Office. The addition of these cities prevents the spelling checker from making potentially sensitive rewrite suggestions for cities ending in "abad" where "X-abad" would suggest "X bad." Requirements: Office XP Service Pack 1 (SP-1) Update.
Download: oxpsu01.exe Download for administrators (.msp) oxpsu01a.exe
View: Microsoft Knowledge Base on this update (Q320664): Office Speller Update
Excel 2002 Update: Additional Help Files
This downloadable file contains the most current Microsoft Excel 2002 Help
files and replaces the existing Help files available in Excel 2002
Office XP Update: Additional Help Files
This downloadable file contains the most current Microsoft Office XP Help files and replaces the existing Help files available in Office XP.
This does not look like the version of the last week leaked presentation.
It does not install well on Win2k even with .NET Framework installed, but runs fine on XP.
There is also a new member called scribbler. The screendumps are made on a WinXP machine with default Theme.
You can see a kind of theme applied to office which is the same as on the video.
Don't be disappointed by the GUI or declare it fake. This is an alpha build of Office .NET, the early builds of Windows XP (Whistler) looked just like Windows 2000.
This build is NOT available for download, it is internally used for testing at MS and that is where I got the pics from.
Accces:
Excel
Word
PowerPoint
Outlook
Scribbler
Publisher
Frontpage
Be sure to check www.windowsxp.nu too for tips, cool downloads on Windows XP
Next Office release codename "Office ONG" (Office Next Generation)
A presentation of the next Office leaked to the Internet.
The presentation seems to be made in October 2001 but now saw the light of Internet day!
update: It seems that it is real MS has requested VibrantLogic to take it down
Watch it (Flash Presentation) Thanks to
VibrantLogic
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