Following the joint release of its flagship products at the end of January 2008, Microsoft started building the successors of Windows Vista and the Office 2007 System. All the while, the Redmond company managed to make public as little information as possible not only on Windows 7 development milestones and official launch, but also on Office 14. Windows 7 leaks, from data to the Milestone 1 build of the platform, slipped out of Redmond in the first half of 2008, but similar details or versions of Office 14 have not made it outside of Microsoft. This is about to change come the end of 2008, with the software company gearing up for the first... [read more >>] Microsoft has offered official confirmation that Office 14 would ship either in late 2009, or at the beginning of 2010. In this context, Office 14 will hit the shelves in tandem with Windows 7. By the looks of it, Microsoft is gearing up for a repeat of the joint Windows Vista - the Office 2007 System launch with its next iterations of the Windows client and productivity suite. Microsoft's official position has already been to claim that Windows 7 would be dropped three years following the general availability of Windows Vista, which means no later than the end of January 2010. Now, the Redmond giant is indicating that the Office 14 an... [read more >>] Although the main focus has been placed on the first service pack for Windows Vista and on the third and final refresh for Windows XP, Microsoft is also hammering away at its remaining flagship product. On December 11, Officer 2007 Service Pack 1 will become widely available for download. The Redmond company confirmed this officially, revealing a much earlier release date than it was previously announced. Initially, Office 2007 SP1 was planned to accompany Windows Vista SP1 in the first quarter of 2008. At that time, few details were offered regarding to what Office 2007 Service Pack 1 would bring to the table. The refresh will tweak the pr... [read more >>] Yes, you did read it right. It's a veritable Service Pack fiesta over at Microsoft. In this context, the next stages of Windows Vista and Windows XP have been joined by the first refresh for the Office 2007 System. On the heels of the private pre-beta releases of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3, Microsoft has also dropped Office 2007 Service Pack 1 in the laps of a select group of testers. However, the next milestone in the evolution of the Office 2007 system does not compare with the beta stages of the product's development in 2006. In fact, it doesn't even come close. Office 2007 Beta 2 for example was downloaded and i... [read more >>] Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program, courtesy of the Mountain View-based search giant. Following its introduction, it has been compared to Microsoft's Office suite. Concomitantly with the availability of Windows Vista on January 30, Microsoft also delivered the 2007 Office System to the general public. The Redmond Company has failed to respond to the move performed by Google with its Internet Docs & Spreadsheets application. But could Microsoft be changing its tune with respect to Google? James Senior, a Microsoft UK technical specialist, pointed to the existence of the Office 2007 Web... [read more >>] | 
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