Office 11 has shipped to testers. It includes 3 cds:
- Office 11 Enterprise Edition
- Frontpage 11
- Publisher 11
In Office 11 beta, we continue to find significant ways to improve the day-to-day tasks of information workers. The most important focus of the product continues to be creating and sharing documents, communicating with others, and working with data.
New Features
Instant Messaging
Anywhere contact names are avaliable in Office 11, users can initiate a conversation by sending an instant message. Users can see when other authers are online in converse with them from almost anywhere in Office 11 Beta programs.
Outlook
Navigation Plane: The navigation pane now includes the Folder List to facilitate navigation between Outlook 11 Beta folders and simplyfy the Outlook window
Reading plane: The new reading pane displays twice as much information without the need for scrolling
XML in Office 11 Beta
XML has been reciveing trememdous attention across the software industry. Almost every Office 11 Beta program takes advantage of this technology
News source: Beta Place
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