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Microsoft Plans New Server Products For Office v12

Posted by timothy on from the fetch-hither-the-license-cost-abacus dept.

cbnet2004 writes "Microsoft Watch is reporting that when the upcoming Office 12 is released (what product reaches 12.0?), Microsoft will have a server version of Excel, Visio, and several other products along with it. So if you thought Microsoft was trying to dominate your desktop, now you'll have to watch out for your severs, too. According to the article, the new servers will fortunately not be for new "thin client" solutions."

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  1. Interesting to see how they will top that. by damu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Office has about 100% market share in business. MS is really facing an uphill battle with their new release it has to be better than anything they have released, and it seems that their ace card will be collaboration. Maybe a CVS type Office reposotory where you can access your documents or any documents by your company from anywhere. A way to link your profit excel sheet, with your word memo, with your inventory access database, with email to investors... We shall see.

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    1. Re:Interesting to see how they will top that. by oni · · Score: 2, Interesting

      any half-decent IT department wipes the disk and installs from a generic image.

      That's correct - if you have a site license for office. I was once a halfway descent IT person in a company that did not have site licenses. I had a big binder with every license for every individual peice of software we owned (until Microsoft made that difficult by putting the license on a sticker on the side of the computer). Anyway, we got some new computers, and these actually didn't come with any office suite. I was prepared to put the same version of office on them that we had on every other computer. This was way back in '98 and we were still using the version before office 97. MS no longer sold the CDs but they were willing to sell me just licenses. But get this, they were more expensive than the new version. That was another incentive to upgrade. I bought them anyway and a few weeks later I got 1 (one) peice of paper in the mail from microsoft that said, "license for X copies of office." It didn't even have a cool hologram or anything.

      So just to review, I paid hundreds of dollars to Microsoft so they could hit File/Print and stuff it in an envelope. You've got to love a company with a setup like that.

  2. We won't see it as version 12.0 by rusty0101 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The next version of Office is going to be identified in accordance with whatever "outside" versioning system they decide to use when it is released.

    It would not surprise me if they label it something like OfficeXP2, or even OfficeYQ.

    Remember the version of Office that came out during the Win9x releases was labeled Office9x. Along with Windows2000 came Office2000. Along came WindowsXP, and up pops OfficeXP.

    The Version 12.0 identifier is the internal identifier for Microsoft developers. It will show up in the 'About xxxx' screen, likely in the form 12.xxxx.yyyy, where xxxx and yyyy are design and build numbers.

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  3. You heard it here first by sethadam1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It will be OfficeFX and OfficeFX Server.

    Just like Longhorn will be WindowsFX.

    Yeah, Win32 is the basis of many versions of Windows, but it's clear that lettering is the current marketing buzz (Windows XP, Athlon MP, etc).