Multiple sources, including Microsoft itself, have confirmed the next version of Office is currently designated Office 14 – interestingly, the next designation was to be Office 13, but Microsoft determined that Office 13 could be “construed as unlucky…” (You couldn’t make this stuff up folks).
The focus of the new suite is to create productivity tools that are more role-based in nature as well as “baking in” the web-collaboration pieces already apparent in MOSS 2007.
The thought is that the applications will be more web-based, ala Google-docs, however Microsoft is beta testing an adjunct to Office (and non-Microsoft office suites) known as Office Live Workspace, which adds document collaboration/sharing capabilities to Word, Excel and PowerPoint (the XP, 2003 and 2007 releases), but Workspace doesn’t provide online/offline sync for Access, OneNote, Publisher or other more business-targeted members of the Office product family… not yet anyway. Stay tuned.
Source: Spring House
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