In the Office Exec blog this morning PJ Hough, CVP of Development of the Microsoft Office Division, announced an important milestone in the beginning of an “Office 15” tutorial—or the preview program of the next generation of Office.
So what can we expect from Office 15?
Hough writes, “[a]t this early point in our development cycle, I’m not able to share too much about Office 15, but I can tell you Office 15 is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division. With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio. Quite simply, Office 15 will help people work, collaborate, and communicate smarter and faster than ever before.”
To consumers in the market to buy electronics, we’ve seen Microsoft in sort of a slump lately, but announcements like this and reported success stories from upcoming releases give us reason to believe that they are in fact coming back, with a boom.
Once the technical preview is ready in full, people will be able to post feedback and Microsoft can hopefully pick up any bugs found. Previously Office 2010 arrived 6 months after its beta release, so we are hopeful Office 15 will be released in a ballpark of 6 months (or hopefully less!).
(via Ben Rudolph via Windows Office Blog; photo via RewriteTech)
