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MS Unveils Office 2007, Multiple Versions
rfunches writes "MSNBC reports that Microsoft's next version of Office, now known as Office 2007 (previously code-named Office 12), will continue targeting the corporate audience through multiple versions of Office 2007. Versions announced include 'Office Professional Plus 2007' and 'Office Enterprise 2007.' From the article: '[Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007] will integrate capabilities of SharePoint, a collaboration program and Web portal that is designed to run over corporate networks and the Internet...and also incorporate Microsoft Office Communicator, a corporate instant messaging service.'"
So.. how many people are really likely to get the lightweight version, hmm?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Are we getting some hot 'MS OFfice EX plus alpha' action soon? Maybe 'Super MS Office XII: Third Strike Champion Hyper Edition'?
Remember folks, try to reduce the stress on the main distribution site by using mirrors when possible, or even better, let's get a BitTorrent tracker going to distribute the load.
Anyone knows how well will it behave in that area, because the article dind't said anything about it
That can never be a good thing...
Employer 1: I seem to have lost the TSP report: Could you it to me ?
Employer 2: ASL?!?!
Clearly, Microsoft continues to feel the impact of open source software. This time it has begun to alter the way they name their products. Back in the day, Microsoft would name a piece of software based on what it did, and in a way that let any idiot understand. By contrast, the OSS community knew that names were better if they bore no linguistic connection to the actual function of the product. (grep, cat, and vi, I'm talking to you.)
Now, however, Microsoft has jumped on the obtuse name bandwagon. What the heck is the difference between "Office Plus" and "Enterprise Edition" vis-a-vis "Office"?
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
The office communicator is one of the few products that I really like. I used a beta for ~3 months and (provided you have the infrastructure in place) it kicks ass. It integrates email, IM and phone in an amazing way (by email I mean Outlook , no you cant use pine :( ). Eg. If the outlook calendar shows that I have a meeting in my office , it will set the IM status to ('Busy, in a meeting') and switch off the phone ringer (and email me any voice messages). Then when I see a missed call, I just click on that person and select call, which switches on the phone speaker and dials out the number. Impressive , eh ?
My office is all but fed-up with the MS Word updates-every-few-years. We wont pay for it again, even the pres of the co said to forget about it. We need the cash in the bank to make it through the next few years, which are going to be stupidly tough.
.doc format, .pdf, .txt, or html. Thats it. When we get unworking things from clients we reply that we were unable to process their doc, the reason why, and instructions on how to do it. Occasionally we get bitchy clients, but those people are bitchy no matter what we do. It doesnt change anything.
As such, all files are to be in Word 2000
Maybe this will be a good segue into Open Office, which is becoming more viable every day.
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See, while Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 will only cost arm, Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 will cost arm + leg.
Oh, and the premium edition, Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007...
you don't want to know.
Two words: vi, LaTeX
I see you have received some bad corporate news..
Would you like to throw a piece of furniture?
1. Chair
2. Sofa
3. 18th Century French Armoir
Office 2007 (previously code-named Office 12)...
Wow, the guys in MS's code-naming division must've been putting in nights and weekends to come up with that.
From True Romance, re: the sequel to "Coming Home in a Bodybag":
Clarence: What's this one called anyway?
Producer: We don't have a title yet. What does Joe like?
PA: Uh, Bodybags II.
Producer: Ooh, that's imaginative. I've got more taste in my penis.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Ahem...
Google Search for Open Source word Processor
Abiword for the lazy that does not want to look further.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
What is this? What is going on here? I wish to make a complaint. Who is in charge here?
The article fails to mention that FrontPage will become SharePoint Designer in Office 2007.
if the previous Office was the Clippy equivalent of JarJarBinky
this Clippy is Revenge of the Sithy.
AbiWord is the closest thing to what I'd like to see. I wish it would get more promotion.
"...and also incorporate Microsoft Office Communicator, a corporate instant messaging service."
What would this be, and why?
Let's see, office programs for use in a corporate environment and big and heavy and full of features, for home use they may have fewer features.
Similarly, music editing software for use in a professional environment will be much more feature rich than the stuff you might use at home.
Surely the power users for IM applications are high school kids? Don't they all use AIM and MS Messenger?
I can see why you would want a seperate, corporate IM network, to stop your drones using IM services outwith your network and
a. sending your data to users outwith your network,
b. wasting time chatting to your friends. The solution to this is a firewall, no?
Also, if it's IM specifically designed for use in a corporate environment, does this mean that every single message with have "...this message is intended for the recipient only, if you receive this message in error..." stamped on it? That will really make for a snappy conversation.
Businesses being what they are, they will also archive every single message, which is worrying because folk will tend to be even less formal and less careful than they are when using email.
Yes, for some reason, office suites feel that they have to inculde everything. Most people don't need 90% of the features in there, or could get by without them if they weren't there. Also, putting tools where they shouldn't be makes things harder. You can draw a picture in Word, Powerpoint, Excel and every other app. Why not have 1 app for drawing, and then the ability to place that drawing in each of the other apps.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
"Microsoft Office Communicator"?
Such innovation!
What's next, "MicrosoftOffice.org"? "Microsoftazureus"? "MicrosoftPhotoshop"?
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
To set a page to landscape in OpenOffice, you have to open Styles and Formatting, create a new style, name it landscape, set its format to landscape, and then select the landscape format for your page/document. That's something like a dozen clicks, plus typing. Of course, it's a one-time thing, but I have to explain it for EVERY user until we get a new image prepared and deployed this summer.
:p
In Microsoft Office, you go to Page Properties, select Landscape, and click OK. Four clicks, and it's in a simple place you'd expect to find it. THAT is why I don't like OpenOffice, who cares about bloat
versions? no ... reasons not to use office!
... whatever fucking use Openoffice already. Microsoft is just satan incarnate.
"oh you mean this file won't open on your copy of office 2007? arrg!"
Or something like that
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Office 2007 Ultra TURBO Championship Dragon Edition X
AbiWord.
Maybe not
And probably still known as office12 as far as the directories and developers may be concerned (I recall the last office version I had being in an office10 folder, which it was not known as from the front (Office XP I think)).
In undeveloped countries, the consumer controls the market. In capitalist America, the market controls you.
"It integrates MS Exchange/Outlook, MS Messenger and MS Phone in an amazing way."
And no, I don't want voice mail in my email. People store too much crap in it already.
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It's kinda funny ... my bank I work at just in the last few months of 2005 finally upgraded from Microsoft Office 97 :-) ... whew ... it we had waited a few months longer, we coulda claimed we were literally 10 years behind!!!
And now MS unveils 2007
The Plus! edition is the one that gives you screen savers and more desktop themes.
The Enterprise edition is to boldly go where no Office program has gone before.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
This is the price at local Frys store (dallas area)....
for the new Office I can bet it would hit 500$ or more..
i for one welcome the stoopid overlords who would go for this damned product...
turn to open source...yo'all
What is the version for home users / smaller offices that don't want/need all the extra bells and whistles? I'd say 95% of any work is done in either Word or Excel. Why not have a "Basic" version of office that just includes those, maybe throw in Outlook, too?
I'm aware of abiword (that covers Word, what about Excel?) and OpenOffice (which I do like, although it has performance issues, some interface issues, etc. and in my prior experience still wasn't fully compatible with extensively formatted Word docs, but that's a topic for another time), but while you can substitute cheap or OSS products for Office, at this point in time nothing else IS Office. I would think a minimalist version of Office (even cut out those features that hardly anyone uses?) that was targeted cheaply (like the cost of a game) to students and home users would go over well.
Although I used OOO for writing my diploma thesis (later switched to latex), MS Office is still installed on my PC. Of course reason is I didn't really pay for it. There is even incentive in my country for students to be able to replace illegal copies of MS software at NO COST(!) for a license. Obviously, MS fears that enforcement will push people not wanting to pay onto free alternatives.
Reason I still have MS office is comatibility, mostily with powerpoint files. I doenload lot's of these from local newsgroup, and OpenOffice, apart from long startup time, doesn't render some correctly. One could probably also use free Excel reader from MS, I'm just not sure how well latest file versions are supported.
For creating slides, 2.0 version is very usable. It has everything I need (even good ppt export support), so I don't really need MS Office for production.
Other options
Developers: We can use your help.
Geez, that's a lot of versions.
Koffice does it just as simply (format->page layout) and performs far better than either of them, IME.
I am trolling
To set a page in OpenOffice.org
Click Format -> Page -> Page tab -> Landscape -> OK
Fucking TROLL
What was wrong with "Format, Page, Orientation, Landscape"?
Bullshit. Menu Format - Page - Orientation. Three clicks, including the one on the okay button, for what it's worth. Maybe you were using Open Office 1.x?
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
Employee A -- "Cool! I got Excel, I'm gonna be a budget analyst!"
Employee B -- "I got Word! Awesome! I'm gonna write memos and be a manager."
Employee C -- "Shit, I got PowerPoint. But I don't want to be a consultant. They suck."
Employee D -- "You think you got it bad? I got Access, I'm never gonna get anything done."
Oh heck, they're pushing this piece of crack. Sure it'll hopefully stop the secretaries emailing 10M Word documents, but they'll be emailing "The Agenda is on the Sharepoint" messages. Great, I can read it with OpenOffice but now I CANT GET IT!!
Anyone know more about Sharepoint and knows of a free client?
B
Joel S. talks about this. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/arti cles/fog0000000020.html
Basically, in order to grab market share, different pieces of the market need/want different sets of features. The aggregate total of ALL those features becomes the bloated MS Office suite.
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...Sarbanes Oxley
Companies need to keep logs of pretty much everything these days. Plus with having a system running in-house you can firewall off other IM services and not worry about employees using IM for non-work uses.
Finally (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) it integrates perfectly into you existing outlook/exchange server directory.
I am NaN
Theya re just different SKU's like earlier versions of office. Word docs from the enterprise edition will work just fine on the basic edition.
5 f83-1a10-4e4a-a137-c1db829637f5/OfficePackagingFS. doc
Here is the full information on versions. Anandtech also has pricing info.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/2/9/c293
Looks like they added a couple of high end SKU's for enterprises. The only thing that annoys me about this is that the student teacher edition doesn't have outlook as it did for 2003.
I wonder why people are falling for this talk about "multiple versions" in Office 2007. The available retail versions of MS Office 2003, as listed on Microsoft.com
- MS 2003 Professional Ed.
- MS 2003 Standard Ed.
- MS 2003 Small Business Ed.
- MS 2003 Student & Teacher Ed.
And the versions of the upcoming Office 2007 as listed in the article
- Professional
- Standard
- Enterprise
- Small Business
- Home & Student
Guess what - all of one extra edition - "Enterprise" (Student & Teacher appears to have been rebranded as Home & Student). The way the article and the submission is written it would appear that multiple versions were the next best thing to sliced bread since, um, Office 2003?
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...pretty much because you are overtly bucking the trend and refusing to give in to the "herd mentality" it takes to survive in this biz anymore. Face the music, MS won. We lost. Might makes Right. The sooner you get back into the status quo - follow the lemmings - way of running your IT ops, the sooner things will smooth out. You *are* supposed to budget for the expense of forced premature obsolescence of your software and replacing it every 18 months, ya know. If you aren't willing to commit to that, then you have no business trying to play in *their* IT world. /sarcasm intended/
This is far from "Insightful", it's plain WRONG.
Right click in the document. Choose "Page...". Go to "Page" tab in the window that pops up. Select "Landscape". Done.
(looking, I see you got moderated as a Troll, as you should have. I have one mod point left but felt this reply would do a better service than wasting it on a coward.)
bork bork bork!
see subject
Why rebuy something that already works just fine? In fact, I find that Office 97 runs faster/better than any of the newer versions I've used at work.
:P
Each time I upgrade to a faster machine, I move my installation over to it. I noticed with Windows XP, the Office 97 installer crashes. After reading some boards online, I noticed that most people concluded that it wouldn't run/install on XP but after experimenting with the 'custom' install, I discovered that all you need to do uncheck the web import/export for Word and everything else will install just fine. Besides, who the heck uses Word to edit/create webpages anyway.
DEAD DEAD DEAD DELETE ME
Please tell me that file formats are compatible accross all these versions, and please, please tell me that the Access file format hasn't changed yet fucking again.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Much like the EA sports games, each released with a year appended to the title (Madden 2006, MLB 2006, Lawn Darts 2006) Microsoft should also follow the trend of stick a famous player of the game on the front in a menacing pose. I nominate Ballmer throwing a chair.
Oh, I'm sure it'll pretty effectively level them.
*rimshot*
Thanks folks, I'm here all week.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
The new Office is called "2007 Microsoft Office System." It was first announced to the public on Jensen Harris' blog (he is one of the architects of the new UI). The official Microsoft announcement for the press can be read here. I don't like it much, but it looks like they use the old car manufacturer naming scheme. Does this mean that we can expect a 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio?
It was probably because of the unsubstantiated attack on OOffice.
To get your point accross, next time lose the expletives or try to back up your claims with factual data rather than rhetoric.
Having sent in a feature request, I am informed by someone at Microsoft that there will indeed be better iCalendar support in Office 12 ( aka Office 2007 ). This is great, since I will be better able to exchange or publish calendars.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
People with really bad web sites?
Wow.
Yeah right...
We should set some rules here...Atleast compare usable products. Say for eg, Firefox is definetely a worthy candidate comapred to IE (infact Firefox is better in lot of aspects). Just because something is open source/free doesn't mean its noteworthy. Craps like AbiWord or StarOffice come nowhere closer to MS-Office's capabilities.
So, it's the same set of features and support, but one costs more? Wow. The least you could have done is to tell us which one.
I see you're trying to make a page with letters. Your version of Microsoft Office only currently supports numbers, please click me and I'll magically transport your credit card number, and a retinal scan to microsoft, where you will be billed, filed, and issued an upgraded version to support letters.
10 seconds later, I see you're trying to use punctuation...
Nowadays, a new version of MS Office may as well be equal to a new version of WinZip. Ha!
That's great!
Where can I download it? Ooops?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
"Why aren't I getting any phone calls for the past 4 hours"
"Because you show as busy in your calendar. You should get the voicemails as emails."
"What?! And where are the voicemails of which you speak?"
"You should be getting them."
"Do you see any in my email?"
"No....I see, you've forwarded your phone to your cellphone, so the voicemails will be forwarded to your PDA."
"But I don't have them in there? It says that the emails were truncated because the PDA omits attachemnts over 128kb."
"Oh then it would have dropped them off."
"So where are they?"
"Deleted. The PDA dropped them, and the voicemail server doesn't save them once sent."
"So they're gone? 4 hours of voicemails - gone?"
"Sorry, it looks like it"
"But I'm not busy in the first place?"
"Hmm...look, you got this email from your wife saying that it's Bill's birthday today."
"So?"
"She marked it as an all day event, when you accepted to add it to your calendar, it marked you as 'out all day'. Also, you're not going to get paid for today, we have our payroll integrated too."
"So let me see if I understand this, according to my accepting a birthday reminder, I've lost 4 hours of vital voicemails, automatically rejected any meeting requests since the system thought I was already in one, and in fact I'm not even going to get paid for today?"
"Yeah, sorry about that."
"So since I'm definitely 'not here', then I guess the police won't suspect me of killing you?"
"?"
-Styopa
...on some low-power laptops under Win98 or W2K.
Works good enough - in fact can't really see much improvement more recent versions of Word and Excel for the kind of things most people use the application for in my organization.
That damn Kirk gets sent on all the good missions.
have the sender with the publisher file open
select all (ctrl+a)
right click any object,
save as image
I do this often.. sending the entire page as a jpg works easily...
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Sharepoint definately has a long way to go. Running an entire MS domain, I still have trouble getting around the security problems when forms opened from Sharepoint are sent via email. Hopefully this new distro will fix that but still, Sharepoint is completely un needed software.
I'm seeing some real slow upgrades on Office now. Running a corporate rollout at massive cost of software + people for a few tweaks just isn't selling. Most places I know are running Office 2K still.
You know, I'm no Access apologist, but I smell ignorance and FUD:
"is horrible to use, the interface just blows"
Wow. How insightful and informative. "Horrible to use" - could you elaborate? "Interface just blows" - is that a technical term?
I find it quite easy to use, and the interface is very intuiutve. "Create New Database". Wow. That was tough. Enter column names in a table - ick!
Just because YOU don't understand it/don't see/can't see the places where it is simply 'the right tool for the job' doesn't make it so. It just makes YOU a tool.
I'm only interested in... the Eye Patch version. Aargh.
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I thought TFA said they were releasing MS Orifice 2007 in the following versions:
MS Orifice 2007 - Professional
MS Orifice 2007 - Standard
MS Orifice 2007 - Enterprise
MS Orifice 2007 - Small Business
MS Orifice 2007 - Home & Student
I gota get my eyes checked...
I lost my sig...
Because that's what I need my malicious script friendly word processing software to be - network aware and readily capable of "sharing" with the rest of the corporate environment.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
Use that expression. Everyone understands what you really mean and what you're implying.
Fargin' piece of Microsoft!
MjM
XKCD:Xeric Knowledge Comically Dispen
For a small shop that cant afford a real IT guy, Access is really important.
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Terrorist message.
Patents Drive Free Software as Hurricanes Drive Construction Industry
The new XML format is interoperable and patches will be released for older versions (back to 97 I believe).
Disclaimer: I am a programmer. I now do Linux stuff, before I did Java and Oracle stuff, so I do not claim to be unbiased.
At a previous job, back when I was a contractor doing Java/Web stuff, my boss asked me, "Do you know access?" It is a fairly simple database program, I'd done some work with it beofre, so I said, "Yes" and got pulled into a new project. They were doing reporting of customer data stored on servers and there was no real system in place to pull this infomration out of reports.
I took the Comma Separated Value (CSV) formatted report and imported it into Access, and proceeded to try to pull together the desired information. I switched over to SQL view to write the non-trivial queires directly, and go something working. When I saved and restored the program. Acces had rewritten my queries, and written them into a format that it could not process. This was valid SQL that had already been proven to execute against the Jet engine, (I think it was Jet, might be newer) but the front end tried to force back into something it could process via the Query By Example (QBE) interface. At that point, I moved the project onto PostGRES and worked with a Java based web front end to build the reporting solution.
That, so me, is a poor user interface.
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I hope they drop the Works writer program. For some foolish reason Works files cannot be opened in Word; the "solution" is to use Works to save it in DOC format (Which is not the default, again, why?).
Hmm... I'm torn. As I developer I agree with you say on a technical level. Problem is, the majority of small businesses in the USA (50 or less employees), at most, 1 programmer. Your best bet is the single IT who mainly exists to keep things running. In this context, MSSQL + Crystal Reports is simply out of the question. You'll be lucky to have somebody on staff that can architect something or even install/administer it. The other issue is cost: licensing mssql and crystal reports aint cheep, and deployment is non-trivial.
Contrast that with the fact that a small business probably has Access installed on every PC. And the reason developers and DBA's revile it is the same reason why business analysts adore it: you don't need to be a programmer to create a useful, data-driven application. The real problem is when so-and-so's app is *really* useful, and the entire department starts using it, and your non-indexed, one-table database with 57 columns and a char(255) primary key starts to run into scaleability issues.
Not to say that Microsoft is all that great. The Access dev team has become weak & flabby, and the amount of functionality they've added since Access97 is pitiful. They make the IE dev team look bleeding edge. In spite of all that, it is still the gold standard for small businesses. As a developer I think that's truly sad, but that's just how it is.
Take a step back from those thoughts. The reason Windows invaded the home was because people wanted compatibility with the systems they used at work. The reason every business bought into Windows and Office was because every other business was doing the same.
Now consider that pushing objects (documents, spreadsheets, etc.) is a two way street. Business A wants to do communicate ideas to Business B, but A has Office version X while B has version Y. So to communicate the agree on the lowest common denominator, or worse, A is the "big dog" and says this is our standard, come up to it or we're done talking (not often, but I do recall one instance with someone at Compaq and a small company I worked for.) Whether anyone really needs any new features, once a few "big dog" companies adopt it the rest follow suit and Bob's your uncle.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Hay look I'm posting on slashdot!!
I'm gonna post my Opinions even though I don't know shit about Office 2007, so I'll just assume Office hasn't changed all that much since Office 97.
It's just Excel, Word, and Powerpoint, right?
*scoff*
*scoff*
WTF is a workflow?
Does anyone here still prefer and use older versions like Office 2000? At home, I use 2000 version and it still does fine for my needs. I don't do fancy editings in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Sometimes I use OpenOffice especially in Linux and Mac OS X v10.2.8 (NeoOffice), but that's rare. At work, I have to use Office 2003 since it is required by IT. I don't like these newer versions (2002/XP, 2003, etc.).
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Until MS Access 'loses' 3-4 months of very important information because it has no data integrity. You do have backups, don't you?
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
How about Office Everything, for those of us who what to spend the most amount of money possible on features we'll never need -- but love to boast about?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I had to quickly copy+paste something today on the M$ computer I was using which had special characters in it, so I had to use Word. Gee, I'm sure glad I'm not using this horseshit to write my thesis. It crashed after hitting the 92nd page because the little squiggly paperclip man couldn't handle all the spelling errors in the foreign text. What's the purpose of having a computer with 2.5 GB of memory and two Pentium Celeron processors if Word still crashes?
I'm sure glad I'm using LaTeX for real work.
Here A pricing sheet for the new suites.
Even though I am not a fan of Microsoft products, they are giving out choices on what to buy. It is true that not everyone needs every software application from Microsoft. This is why 7 different packages will be ofered. From here you can click on the links to see the pricing, and what packages will be available, and with what applications included. Although, if you ask me, even the 'Basic' and 'Home and Student' options are overpriced.
Now there's Office Regular Light and Office Maxi Pro with Wings(tm) for those heavy flow days...
.DOC wasn't a poor enough 'standard' to begin with! I think the future of OpenOffice is assured with this kind of stupidity.
What a way to split up a product line! Whose going to be able to follow whose got what version? As if
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
MS Word
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here - though every bone in my body assumes YOU did something screwy, because I have NEVER had this problem - and not imply you're doing something screwy.
Instead I will point this out: the program screwed you over, yes; but not 'the interface'. The interface did what it was supposed to: helped you create a query to get at your data. If the other tiers screwed up, fine. After all Access is mostly crap. Yeah, I said it. It is; but it HAS ITS PLACE, and it's not crap beacuse of the interface; the interface is rather refined, and that was my original/main point.
Where the heck is Outlook? Isn't that a basic application?
Four words: Office Temp, Senior Volunteer.
all of the new formats?
Or do we have to download it from a European site to get around the software "patents" they probably "included"?
That's all I want to know about Office 12 um 2007 um 2008 um 2009 um bugfix coming real soon now please don't replace us.
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We need a new biotech wing here at the UW.
Plus, I've always wanted to get an Office Foamy the Squirrel edition - that's the one that comes with Java, lots of Java, and instead of Clippy annoying you there's this squirrel who obviously has a caffeine addiction problem and talks a lot.
Of course, the online help is a little squirrely, with suggestions like this:
"Whatcha doin? Oh, not another one of those memo things, are you? Weren't you going to get me some coffee?"
and
"Time for another Foamy rant: What's with all these Saves you keep doing? I mean, do you really need to save the document every time you go to the bathroom? And could you flush next time, it's starting to reek in here. And don't turn off the monitor, I can't see your cat to torment it when you do that."
and, of course, the obligitory Foamy the Squirrel songs when you start typing something really really boring.
Yup, hope they give us the student/staff discount for that one.
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Hmmm. Well, QBE certainly does have its place. I'll concede the point that it was not the QBE UI that was messing up my query. It was the mechanism saving nd restoring queries that was broken.
I wasn't really doing anything that wonky, just something I couldn't figure out how to do using QBE.
Open Source Identity Management: FreeIPA.org
Ok... we're at version 12 now and still no proper
message threading?
How about some basics... then the useless.
I'm still pissed off with the multiple versions of Word97 that were incompatable with each other but came in identical packaging and CD labels. I've never been able to assume an MS product will work as advertised since.
MSNBC reports that Microsoft's next version of Office, now known as Office 2007 (previously code-named Office 12)...
Office 12 was a codename? Since when has an actual version number been a damn codename?
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
OneNote 2007 replaces Outlook in Office Home. Vista Home will include an improved Windows Mail app and Windows Calendar with iCalendar support.
and also incorporate Microsoft Office Communicator, a corporate instant messaging service
Scotty! Beam up my TPS Reports!
People with really bad web sites?
i thought they used Frontpage?
take what i say with a grain of salt, a dash of pepper, a pinch of oregano, and an itty bitty little drip of faygo
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/developers /fileoverview.mspx
Bottom of the page, under "Compatibility."
The question remains, though, will MS actually implement this to exactly match its specifications, or are we just looking at the next RTF? (As far as compatibility of whole documents goes.)
At this rate, I'm suprised there will be no MS Office Professional Double Plus Plus Good....