Microsoft Office 12 Beta 2006

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With its lucrative Office suite in decline, Microsoft is feeling the heat. Once accountable for about 50 percent of Microsoft's revenues, Office contributed less than one-third of the company's revenues throughout 2004, and increased competition from low-cost options such as Corel WordPerfect Office 12 and Sun's StarOffice/OpenOffice.org tandem are starting to hurt as well. But Microsoft's biggest competition in the office productivity space, ironically, comes from within: Older versions of the Office suite, including Office 2000, XP, and 2003, are often cited by customers as being good enough. Thus, businesses aren't upgrading to new Office versions as quickly as they used to. And most now skip a version or two before upgrading.

Looking back over the past several Office versions, the reluctance to upgrade is understandable. In Office 2000 , Microsoft added pervasive Web integration, a multi-item Office clipboard, Single Document Interface (SDI) user interfaces to key applications like Word, controversial personalized menus and toolbars, and more. Office XP , released in 2001, saw the debut of task panes and Smart Tags, new collaboration features, and some document recovery and reliability improvements. In Office 2003 , Microsoft broke its suite out into many more product editions, added some XML-based document types, and basically streamlined how one accesses the already packed Office feature-set. The idea was to give people more obvious ways to access functionality they didn't know was even in there already. Office 2003 also saw the introduction of two new Office applications, OneNote and InfoPath.

As you can see, not much has changed since Office 97, not really. Sure, for hard core writers such as myself, small improvements in each version to Word pay off, and upgrading makes sense. With each version, too, Outlook has gotten significantly better, as has the Outlook Web Access (OWA) feature in Exchange 2003, which shipped just after Office 2003. But for run-of-the-mill knowledge workers and consumers, Office is overly expensive, with little to justify the huge cost of upgrading. It's no wonder that Microsoft has been fretting over the upgrade dilemma for a few years now.

Now, in early 2005, Microsoft is plotting the path to Office 12, its next major Office version. Office 12 will once again push collaboration features for businesses. It will arrive with a new range of Office-based servers. It will push the XML envelope even harder. But for Microsoft, the goal with Office 12 is more basic and more pressing than ever before. After years of lackluster upgrades and increased competition, Microsoft will seek to finally push its legacy users off of Office 97, fight the "good enough" arguments, and try to deliver a suite that meets the needs of many, many market segments. In this showcase, I'll detail the Office 12 delivery schedule and examine early Office 12 prototypes and plans.


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