Microsoft Starting to Plan for Office 15
It's the thing to do these days in order to stay ahead.
Microsoft has already started planning for Office 15, which will be the version after Office 2010 (the fourteenth iteration of Office).
Such forward and advanced planning isn't uncommon. In fact, Microsoft is already at work on Windows 8, which it hopes to ship in 2012.
Ars Technica spotted a post on the Microsoft Access Team Blog titled, "Access 15 and SQL Server" with the following message: "Hello everyone! As Office 2010 nears shipping, we are starting to plan Office 15. One area that we are considering improving is our SQL Server support. Based on what I've heard from the community, that would be most welcome. Note that we are very early in planning, and considering many possible areas of investment, I unfortunately can't commit to any actual improvements at this time."
The final shipping name of the product likely won't be Office 15, as the previous versions 2003, 2007 and the upcoming 2010, are named after their release years. Of course, with no committed release frame yet, we'll be referring to it as Office 15 for some time to come.
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64 bit sound good to you? Much improved user interface? Try the beta and see if you like it, if not then you won't have to wonder, you'll know for sure! Cheers.
I wish I knew how to properly work with all their office apps, I just began working with OneNote, and I love it.
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Microsoft has already started planning for Office 15, which will be the version after Office 2010 (the fourteenth iteration of Office).
If you look into the install files windows 2010 is listed under office 14 in some cases this numbering is not an official name just pointing out that it's the 15th version to pop out so just
Excell and access is more where 64bit is wanted.
Yes it's good and all, but more most users completley unnescessary, especially when the large corporations they are targeting AREN'T running 64 bit systems.....
I would think they'd be better off improving multi-thread efficiency first
So maybe this should be "Office 14.1."
Nearly nothing. For the average person, if Office 2000 would only have worked on Win7, we'd have more than enough with that!
Why does everything HAVE to become more and more stuffed, more and more graphical and visual?
To the point where it stresses ordinary processors so much it's barely able to run on an ordinary computer, and for what? To write a sheet of paper?
Come on!
I really could do without all the extra's. Many of the things incorporated are only there so that you can buy the newest Office, without ever using something in there that isn't already there in earlier office packs!
I'm slowly starting to get tired of MS, forcing users to purchase a new pack every year!
I wish some sort of competitor would rise up, create a great working, light kernel, that is fast, energy efficient, and a graphical desktop that really is focused on performance and battery life, instead of all this visual battery eating crap!
So far Xubuntu would be great, I wished only that there would be more software packs and games converted to this platform!
I guess all 64-bit OS's are "completely unnecessary especially when the large corporations they are targeting AREN'T running 64 bit systems" too. What gets installed on my system or yours or anyone's for that matter, doesn't have to be controlled by what large corporation's PC's are running. Your stance is naive.
I'd welcome 64 bit. Doesn't mean I need more RAM for docs and whatnot but if my OS is 64, why not get 64 programs to compliment it.
The iterations since I entered the work force have been Word 2.0, 95, 97, 98 (I think it was Mac only), 2000, XP, 2007 and now 2010. So not counting minor updates that makes Office 15 the 9th iteration of Word, Access and probably PowerPoint for Windows. It is incredible how short human memories and a version number can give a product history and depth
So the real question - If MS is still pumping out versions of office will the 15th iteration (when it gets here in the 2022-2028 time frame) really include the Kitchen sink? Will I need 1 TB of RAM to run it?
We've just switched from Office 97 to Office 2000 at work...
And I guess it is the same for many companies.
Oh and we are also using it on XP and IE is still IE6.
Fortunately we are allowed to use Firefox instead ... the 1.7 version.
:-(
Anyway, knowing that MS is working on Office 2015 is not surprising.
It would be surprising if they only start to work on it in 2014.
Who's forcing you to buy anything? You don't want all those extras to write a sheet of paper? Use Wordpad or Works. They come bundled with nearly every windows distribution. Or use OpenOffice, or any other free word processor out there. Seriously, what are you complaining about? Does someone have a gun to your head saying you have to use the latest version of Office at all times? What a lame rant.
Clearly you don't understand the real benefits of 64 bit programs. If you're using a 64 bit OS then it makes more sense to use 64 bit programs - not to mention that for anyone who multitasks within the Office suite will get real world benefits from running a 64 bit version. And as someone pointed it out already, there's more to Office than just Word.