Form Filling Through Office 12

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."

Comments

WTF is InfoPath?

[ari_j]

Besides the blurb being simply a quote from the beginning of the article, it doesn't provide any of the background information that we need. There are many of us who are curious enough about the story to justify it being on the front page of Slashdot but who don't know enough about the buzzwords and products named in the blurb to figure out how it affects us.

Uh huh.

[AKAImBatman]

A multi-billion dollar company places its best people on creating better office software and we get...

A reinvention of HTML Forms?

This is the 21st century! Where are my flying cars? I want flying cars, not "XML Form Things".

Call me a cynic, but..

[CdBee]

..would this ability (XML forms thru browser)be limited to Internet Explorer running on Longhorn?