Microsoft Office 14 Preview

[Bare Foot Kid]

Microsoft Office 14 Web Applications Preview.

Microsoft will unveil details about its next office productivity offering, Office 14. Among other things, the Office 14 wave of products will include the oft-rumored Web versions of certain Office applications, giving customers a way to both view and edit rich Office documents in the Web. For this first version of Office Web Applications--which may or may not be the final name--Microsoft is providing Web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

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Later :shock: Ted

 

[EnsignLexington]

They're upto Office 14 now?! Wow, time really flies... I've still got my Office 11 beta kit here

 

[MegaFixer]

I thought Office 2008 is the next one... BTW, who was the lucky one to get it from torrents? x86 version of office 2008 pro

 

[davehc]

I,m a slow reader - I,m still working through the new (?) 2007 ribbon. lol

 

[jackdelamare]

All sounds good. I love the Office 2007 ribbon, but I'm a bit skeptic about the web applications... pointless? Because you'd have to have it installed on your computer to be able to use the web applications (or people would just use web) and not every computer would have it installed, meaning you'd have to do it on a computer with it installed, but if you do you might aswell just use the desktop based one.

Unless I've miss-read something, don't you agree?

 

[davehc]

You lost me somewhere there M8

 

[johngalt]

I thought Office 2008 is the next one... BTW, who was the lucky one to get it from torrents? x86 version of office 2008 pro

I know of Office 2008 for *Mac* - not windows...so this is news to me....

All sounds good. I love the Office 2007 ribbon, but I'm a bit skeptic about the web applications... pointless? Because you'd have to have it installed on your computer to be able to use the web applications (or people would just use web) and not every computer would have it installed, meaning you'd have to do it on a computer with it installed, but if you do you might aswell just use the desktop based one.

Unless I've miss-read something, don't you agree?

Not necessarily - M$ may set it up so that you'd buy a license to use the online and then you could use it from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection.

I already use Google Apps, and it is free since I host my domain there, but it is relatively easy to use, if a bit cumbersome in terms of lack of major features, bells and whistles.

 

[WindowSeven]

Comes out in Q3-Q4 2009.