Microsoft Office 14

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Microsoft Office 14 ("Office 14" for short) is the working title for the next version of the Microsoft Office System productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It entered development during 2006 while Microsoft was finishing work on Microsoft Office 12, which was released as the 2007 Microsoft Office System. The major version number 13 has been skipped presumably due to triskaidekaphobia. As of February 14, 2007, it is expected that Office 14 will ship in the first half of 2009^[1] though this date has neither been confirmed nor denied by Microsoft.

According to an article published in InfoWorld in April 2006^[2], Office 14 will be more "role-based" than previous versions. The article cites Simon Witts, corporate vice president for Microsoft's Enterprise and Partner Group, as claiming that there would be features tailored to employees in "roles such as research and development professionals, sales persons, and human resources." Borrowing from ideas termed "Web 2.0" when implemented on the Internet, it is likely that Microsoft will incorporate features of SharePoint Server in Office 14.^[3]

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1. ^ Foley, Mary Jo. "Office 14: Think first half of 2009." All about Microsoft, 14 February 2007. Accessed at http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?cat=16 on February 14, 2007.
2. ^ Krill, Paul. "Microsoft eyes 'people-ready' software." InfoWorld, 5 April 2006. Accessed at http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/05/77167_HNwittssoftware2006_1.html on February 14, 2007.
3. ^ Foley, Mary Jo. "Microsoft’s Office 2007 team wants in on Web 2.0." All about Microsoft, 10 January 2007. Accessed at http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=194 on February 14, 2007.