Microsoft Plans New Server Products For Office v12 37
cbnet2004 writes "Microsoft Watch is reporting that when the upcoming Office 12 is released (what product reaches 12.0?), Microsoft will have a server version of Excel, Visio, and several other products along with it. So if you thought Microsoft was trying to dominate your desktop, now you'll have to watch out for your severs, too. According to the article, the new servers will fortunately not be for new "thin client" solutions."
Interesting to see how they will top that. (Score:3, Interesting)
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Lotus Notes is a combination Email, Calendar, Contact application like Microsoft Outlook/Exchange. Instead of keeping emails and other data in a nice sensible format, Notes puts everything inside of various databases... for example, each user has their own file (blakey_rat.mail) that is a database containing your email and dates.
The GOOD thing about this is that the database engine is powerful enough that you can do more with Notes/Domino than just email. For
Re:Interesting to see how they will top that. (Score:2)
The biggest irony was when IBM acquired Lotus because all of IBM's big application software is just as bad as Notes.
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I'm sorry, but that is not at all how it works.
MS will stop selling the old version, so when you buy a shiny new computer from Dell, you're going to get the new version of Office. When a business replaces a few of their computers, they will find subtle but noticable differences between the office suites.
Guess who always gets the newest computer
Re:Interesting to see how they will top that. (Score:2)
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Either that or your transferring licenses, because you had a license for the machine that this one is replacing right?
Also you don't have to buy a dell with Office. With Windows you are paying twice if you already have a site license, but for Enterprise you usually have a choice to buy without licenses and save a few bucks.
Doesn't sound like you've worked at an Enterprise IT Support. Not that I ha
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That's correct - if you have a site license for office. I was once a halfway descent IT person in a company that did not have site licenses. I had a big binder with every license for every individual peice of software we owned (until Microsoft made that difficult by putting the license on a sticker on the side of the computer). Anyway, we got some new computers, and these actually didn't come with any office suite. I was pr
Re:Interesting to see how they will top that. (Score:2)
Or... just use OpenOffice to being with. :)
Any CPA types out there who can tell me if you can depreciate software over
Re:Interesting to see how they will top that. (Score:2)
Remember, we're talking about large corporations here (the context was where there's a communications discontinuity between "management" and "employees"), so I wasn't addressing people who work for companies with so few employees that an extra couple hundred per computer really matters.
We won't see it as version 12.0 (Score:3, Interesting)
It would not surprise me if they label it something like OfficeXP2, or even OfficeYQ.
Remember the version of Office that came out during the Win9x releases was labeled Office9x. Along with Windows2000 came Office2000. Along came WindowsXP, and up pops OfficeXP.
The Version 12.0 identifier is the internal identifier for Microsoft developers. It will show up in the 'About xxxx' screen, likely in the form 12.xxxx.yyyy, where xxxx and yyyy are design and build numbers.
-Rusty
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Longhorn Office is probbably next - because your workers are nothing but cattle.
You heard it here first (Score:3, Interesting)
Just like Longhorn will be WindowsFX.
Yeah, Win32 is the basis of many versions of Windows, but it's clear that lettering is the current marketing buzz (Windows XP, Athlon MP, etc).
Re:You heard it here first (Score:2)
With a quick google, I can't confirm that MP does actually stand for Multi-processor, make it makes sense if it did.
Actually (Score:2)
I seems to recall it being marketed as "mobile processor." But XP, as in Athlon XP, and Windows XP, and FX, as in WinFX and AthlonFX, and Coke c2, etc demonstrate that that type of marketing appears to be effective - or at least, ad execs think so.
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I can't wait to see this. (Score:3, Funny)
"What OS are you running?"
"Windows Longhorn 2005 Service Pack 5 Office Server Edition with Service Pack 6.5 for Athlon64."
"I'm sorry sir, we only provide patches for Windows Longhorn 2005 Service Pack 6 Office Server Edition with Service Pack 7 for Athlon64s."
"Damn!"
what product reaches 12.0? (Score:3, Informative)
Cisco IOS Release 12.0
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.0 (Sybase ASE jumped from version 4 to version 10, leaving 5,6,7,8,9 to MS SQL Server)
Hardware Compatibility Test (HCT) 12.0
CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12.0
Corel WordPerfect Office 12.0
Domus.Cad 12.0
Palm Tipsheet 12.0
ALS Beamline 12.0
OmniPage Pro 12.0
SPSS for Windows 12.0
Laplink Gold 12.0
Etcetera... [google.com]
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Ummm... Emacs, for one.
But I guess *nix users would argue that is their Office.
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Ummm... Emacs, for one.
Yeah, but less has more!
$ less --version
less 378
So, it's a licencing engine? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:So, it's a licencing engine? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's about time! How many servers out there are running a desktop Excel that is being COM controlled by a web application? Excel is NOT made to handle multiple simultaneous requests, and hangs, crashes, corrupts and does other nasty things when it is asked to.
I don't know how many times I've had to kludge together a solution to manipulating Excel spreadsheets or Powerpoint presentations in a web server application. None of the solutions are perfect. Controlling Excel and Powerpoint with COM leads to an unstable solution. Emulating Excel or Powerpoint data leads to buggy data (since Microsoft actively tries to F* up anybody trying to emulate their data formats).
A server-capable Office engine would enable me to manipulate Excel, Powerpoint, and Word documents in a web application.
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