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.'"

Comments

Mmm... versions

[keyne9]

Are we getting some hot 'MS OFfice EX plus alpha' action soon? Maybe 'Super MS Office XII: Third Strike Champion Hyper Edition'?

Sweeeet!!!!

[Professor_UNIX]

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.

Uh oh

[Anonymous Coward]

..and also incorporate Microsoft Office Communicator, a corporate instant messaging service.

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?!?!

MS Carnage

[AnalystX]

"designed to run over corporate networks and the Internet"

Why not? Microsoft tries to run over everything else. I just hope there isn't too much damage.

Scaled cost as well as features

[Macblaster]

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.

Re:Scaled cost as well as features

[PFI_Optix]

you don't want to know.

Yes I do.

Clippy is back in Microsoft Office Communicator

[sikandril]

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

What is this?

[Anonymous Coward]

What is this? What is going on here? I wish to make a complaint. Who is in charge here?

Re:The OSS impact

[Lumpy]

What the heck is the difference between "Office Plus" and "Enterprise Edition" vis-a-vis "Office"?

if it's anything like their other products....

The difference is about 50% to 300% more expensive with 5% more functionality that only 2% will use.

2007 Multiple Versions

[Anonymous Coward]

Geez, that's a lot of versions.

What about Office 2007 Grab Bag Edition?

[Anonymous Coward]

With Microsoft Grab Bag Edition you get one exciting office application, you just don't know which one. By distributing the ``Bag'' edition of office, indecisive HR departments can assign jobs based on dumb luck:

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."

Re:Offices are getting sick of this

[towsonu2003]

We need the cash in the bank to make it through the next few years, which are going to be stupidly tough.

Hmmmm, I wonder why :-k

all files are to be in Word 2000 .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.

Oh yes, I see the reason now... \\:D/

Also Announced

[carrier lost]

• Office Borg - Will assimilate all copies of non-Microsoft productivity software
• Office Clipinator - A random collection of cute, animated icons which will attempt to provide the same clerical output as your average gum-chewing office assistant.
• Office Extravaganza - Every piece of eye-candy imaginable - scrolling menus, transparent windows, aqua-theme derivatives
• Office SUV - Sucks up all available computer resources with no discernable increase in useable output.
• Office Enron - Provides plausible deniability by randomly losing sensitive documents, transferring incriminating information to unsuspecting coworker's hard drives and routinely wiping inbox.

Box cover

[saboola]

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.

He he ....

[gstoddart]

a collaboration program and Web portal that is designed to run over corporate networks and the Internet...

Oh, I'm sure it'll pretty effectively level them.

*rimshot*

Thanks folks, I'm here all week.

Re:I will stick with Office 97, thank you very muc

[trash eighty]

Besides, who the heck uses Word to edit/create webpages anyway.

People with really bad web sites?

Re:File Formats?

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft has always had excellent interoperability between all versions of Office and Windows.

Integration for the WIN!

[argStyopa]

"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?"
"?"

I'm only interested in...

[Mad Ogre]

I'm only interested in... the Eye Patch version. Aargh.

Re:Do I forsee...

[koweja]

Personally, I see more people trying to use Access to as a spreadsheet than trying to use Excel as a database.