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Form Filling Through Office 12

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whistles-and-bells-aplenty dept.

Qa32 writes "For those chomping at the bit for more Office 12 details, Microsoft offered a tiny peek at the upcoming offering, or offerings, due next year. In what he termed the first public viewing of Office 12, Chris Caposella, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Information Worker Product Management Group, showed off a distributed forms capability that would enable customers to fill in and submit XML forms easily via a browser, without having to run Microsoft InfoPath on their PC."

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  1. Re:OT by David+Off · · Score: 2, Funny

    or in the case of /. stories: chumps, or maybe even chimps!

  2. "distributed forms capability" by ChipMonk · · Score: 2, Funny

    And it's leverage enabled for system empowerment!

  3. Re:WTF is InfoPath? by VP · · Score: 5, Funny

    InfoPath is to Information what PsychoPath is to the Psyche...

  4. Office 12 already by ScottSpeaks! · · Score: 1, Funny

    How is this news? I've been using Office 12 for months already. You can buy it online right here.

  5. Re:So... by Alphabet+Pal · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know of this "PDF", so I figured I'd ask the Microsoft assistant to tell me more. Clippy doesn't consider this a valid option - I asked him "How do I fill out forms in PDF?" and he answered "Create forms that users complete in Word". If even Clippy's never heard of it, I'm not going to risk it.

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  6. A browser that can submit forms? FINALLY! by Mr2001 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank God someone finally implemented this great idea. I'm so sick of having to telnet into servers and type in POST queries by hand to submit forms. Now, at long last, we'll be able to post comments on Slashdot just by typing text in a box and clicking a button!

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