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New version of Office due in May 2003

Thanks Geronimo for this.. The next version of Microsoft Office, code-named Office 11, will be released next May, Microsoft Corp.'s Jeff Raikes, vice president of productivity and business services, announced yesterday at the PC Expo/TechXNY conference in New York.

four areas where Office will be upgraded.

  • The user interface in Outlook, the e-mail client software that comes with the Office suite, has been changed to split its window vertically, instead of horizontally
  • Office will also have better XML connectors, so users can automatically transfer data from applications such as enterprise resource planning to Office applications such as Excel
  • Tighter integration between Office 11 and SharePoint
  • Allow users to place unstructured data, such as that from a drawing table, directly into a structured document, such as a Microsoft Word or text file.
News source: ComputerWorld

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