OpenDocument, Bill Gates, Excel, XML, word, Windows Server 2003, SharePoint
The next version of Microsoft Office will be "dramatically better" as a platform for creating applications, according to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect. He announced the features that developers can expect to see in Office 2007 at the Office System Developers Conference 2006 on Tuesday, at the company's headquarters in Redmond.
Office 2007, due for release in autumn this year, will feature a much greater level of programmability, including server-side processing of Office documents and other business information. While the Office applications have been scriptable for many years, and available to use in custom-written applications in recent versions, Office 2007 will allow developers to work directly with XML-based files. The availability of server-side processing components for Office documents will allow documents to be changed as part of a custom-written application.
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Ofcourse, all that promised developing power still has to be actually delivered and even then will be utterly useless unless widely adopted. Which in turn will only be possible if large investments in time, money, blood, sweat and tears will be made. Since it's unlikely that you'll be able to get a company wide Office 2007 license for, say, EUR 50 and do nothing more dramatic then: setup, next, next, next, finish.
23 Mar 06 00:49 ReplyPerhaps developers would better serve the community if they would improve on existing means. Whatever they are.
Which in itself is a message to both customers and software houses alike.
Whith patents claims and such things no one dares to produce any applications whithout the fear of getting sued. So the only choice for small companys is to jump on the ODF (True open. Not Microsoft sense of open) bandwagon. Microsoft Office is a dead application. OpenOffice is the next best thing.
23 Mar 06 14:32 ReplyDon't we have enough development platforms already? Microsoft have a split personality - on the one hand we have web services Windows Live!, on the other the ultimate thick client - Office 07, so which is it to be?
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