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Microsoft confirms Office 12 will be Office 2007

Posted by Tom Warren on 16 February 2006 - 11:15 · 82 comments & 27836 views

Microsoft announced today the lineup for Microsoft Office Suites 2007.

Alongside the product branding, Microsoft has also revealed pricing for the different versions of Office 2007.

Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 (Available through Volume Licensing, no price announced)
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 (Available through Volume Licensing, no price announced)
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 (Retail $499, Upgrade $329)
Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 (Retail $449, Upgrade $279)
Microsoft Office Standard 2007 (Retail $399, Upgrade $239)
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 (Retail $149, no upgrade available)
Microsoft Office Basic 2007 (Available through OEMs, no price announced)

Individuals programs have also been priced:

Microsoft Office Access 2007 (Retail $229, Upgrade $109)
Microsoft Office Communicator (Available through Volume Licensing, no price announced)
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (Retail $229, Upgrade $109)
Microsoft Office Groove 2007 (Available through Volume Licensing, no price announced)
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (Retail $199, no upgrade available)
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 (Retail $99, no upgrade available)
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (Retail $109, no upgrade available)
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (Retail $229, Upgrade $109)
Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 (Retail $599, Upgrade $349)
Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 (Retail $999, Upgrade $599)
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (Retail $169, Upgrade $99)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Retail $299, no upgrade available)
Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2007 (Retail $259, Upgrade $129)
Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 (Retail $559, Upgrade $349)
Microsoft Office Word 2007

Office 2007 promises a new UI, better server capabilities and a new product named Groove. Groove allows teams to work together over the web backed by a central management server.

Office 2007 is currently in testing and a pre-beta 2 release is expected sometime in March.

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#1 Posted by idoia on 16 Feb 2006 - 11:18: booooooo !! hoorray for the incredible innovation surprise name

(8 replies) #2 Posted by physarl on 16 Feb 2006 - 11:20: at last..
btw, how do u guys think about the pricing compared to earlier version...?

still reasonable ... ? LOL ..

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(2 replies) #3 Posted by dmbandfan22 on 16 Feb 2006 - 11:23: what really sucks is that they took office out of the home and student move...bad move i say. i love outlook and would never switch to OE just becuase MS says its better for home users...

(1 reply) #4 Posted by Axel on 16 Feb 2006 - 11:27: Pricey. Oh well I might actually have to *buy* this one.

(7 replies) #5 Posted by shihchiun on 16 Feb 2006 - 11:39: I don't know about you, but I'm not paying $150+ for a new UI that doesn't really help me at all. It's probably going to just confuse more people..

#6 Posted by Midnight Mick on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:03: Prices are ridiculously over the top.

Either people will stick with older Windows Office Suite's or go with other software vendors..

#7 Posted by nexus291 on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:04: whats the point, like i only use word & outlook 2003, & the current UI suits me, I baught Office 2003 students edition, i hope this is same with Office 2007

but $109 just for outlook , & will they be giving word free with it

seriousoly this bundle of Word, outlook, Powerpoint & excel should be made cheap, if possible, just bundle word & outlook for $100

(4 replies) #8 Posted by Danielkun on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:05: Where's Frontpage?

(1 reply) #9 Posted by lloydo on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:14: I MISS PHOTODRAW 2000!!!!

#10 Posted by Smigit on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:18: i get this sooooo much cheaper through the Uni. Got 2003 for $115 Au which is probably like 80 or so $US. That was the professional edition enterprise edition with outlook, access and all those apps on it too. wasnt bad and i'll wait until the uni offers it and then update then.

(1 reply) #11 Posted by tibi08 on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:28: Is this as reliable as the Vista editions news?

#12 Posted by _tux_ on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:29: i quite liked the name office 12

#13 Posted by lawtai on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:33: Prices are reasonable I'd say.

(1 reply) #14 Posted by VikingStorm on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:35: Oh well, I guess they figured out it was too similar to Corel WordPerfect Office 12.

(1 reply) #15 Posted by hotdog963al on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:43: Could they make the product branding more complicated??
End users are going to be like WTF Which one do I buy!!?

#16 Posted by Xboxking on 16 Feb 2006 - 12:51: LOL I see they changed the "Student and Teacher Edition" to "Home and Student" - everyone was buying the student edition so they may as well change the name lol!

#17 Posted by bucko on 16 Feb 2006 - 13:00: I still laugh how we are in 2006 and they name it 2007 to make the product last "longer".

(2 replies) #18 Posted by ambiance on 16 Feb 2006 - 13:03: Microsoft gives better BETA tags than their retail names! IMO (not that it matters ) they should never put dates/year in their titles as it makes it seem older. Office 12 would have been much more suited for a company that needs to re-invent itself.

#19 Posted by Ashl on 16 Feb 2006 - 13:10: Whats Office Groove? Sounds like a bit of an over interesting name for something...

(1 reply) #20 Posted by leebobs on 16 Feb 2006 - 13:15: Anyone got any idea what will be in the Office Basic Package?

(2 replies) #21 Posted by Galley on 16 Feb 2006 - 14:06: Home and Student Edition with Outlook for $260; not bad.

#22 Posted by Hankyone on 16 Feb 2006 - 15:04: they should make express editions

(2 replies) #23 Posted by MI6Labs on 16 Feb 2006 - 15:10: And what comes with the Microsoft Office Torrent Edition?
In all honesty I have to admit that MS Office, is one of if not the best office suite around. However with the prices they're charging, they're probably going to make less profit than if they were selling cheaper (in the total amount sold.)

But hey for all I know I'm wrong not as if I study the market

#24 Posted by Krill on 16 Feb 2006 - 15:26: Wonder how much Office 2007 professional will cost in the UK. According to Amazon.co.uk the existing price of Office 2003 professional should be £429.99 at full retail ($743.79) so I imagine Office 2007 will be similar. Scary

(2 replies) #25 Posted by Echilon on 16 Feb 2006 - 15:49: And they wonder why everyone warez's it

#26 Posted by mohan_168 on 16 Feb 2006 - 16:02: Hope Office 2003 works with Vista and is not a forced upgrade to 2007

(1 reply) #27 Posted by BinaryVision on 16 Feb 2006 - 16:45: With my recent purchase of an iBook, I'm debating whether I should just install my existing academic version of Office 2003 in Virtual PC or spend another $100 and get Office 2004 for Mac. And now with Office 2007 coming out, I'm wondering how soon it will be before the next version of Office for the Mac. Although 2003-2007 was 4 years. And if it took 1 year to get Office 2k3 to Mac as Office 2k4, than it will probably be some time. What would you do?

#28 Posted by Divide Overflow on 16 Feb 2006 - 19:11: Groove is a virtual office collabration application. Basically, it uses P2P to share schedules, calendars, files, et cetera. Back when I worked for a company that used it, this horrid application saturated our upstream bandwidth. I worked in a small office, so we had a cable connection. That connection had 5 megabits downstream bandwidth, and 384 kilobits of upstream bandwidth. More than adequate for our needs. . seeing as there were no internet accessable servers in our office. However, this god awful application had no option to thottle bandwidth, and every time someone synchronized their data with everyone else, that person's Groove client would go out to an Internet server, then the data would come back in the cable connection to the other client machines on the network. Totally unneccessary. There was no way to set up a local server, or tell the client that the other members were located on the LAN and it did not need to use the Internet connection. There were only a couple of members offsite. No options at all for this. So, every time Groove would sync, it would saturate our connection and make the remote web apps we needed to use, well. . unusable.

I certainly hope they have improved the application. I think this is one case where Microsoft can only improve the application.

(1 reply) #29 Posted by TRC on 16 Feb 2006 - 19:15: Why do you need a new expensive version of Office every year just to type letters and stuff? What does this do that Office 97 doesn't?

(2 replies) #30 Posted by Octol on 16 Feb 2006 - 20:14: Anyone worrying about the high price of Microsoft programs should check out Technet Plus:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abouttn/subscriptions/default.mspx

For the price of one retail copy of Office Professional 2007, you can try out all of Microsoft's software without time limits. This includes all current and future Windows Server and Desktop Operating Systems, Office Systems, Virtual Server systems, and so on. This of course will include Office Enterprise 2007 as soon as it's released, which you can be sure will cost considerably more than $500 US.

This is a massive bargain no matter how you cut it.

#31 Posted by rIaHc3 on 16 Feb 2006 - 21:29: A dumb joke: Microsoft Word is free seeing as there is no retail/upgrade price posted in the news article. Free and Microsoft dont usually belong in the same sentence but it they are it usually means good (eg. Windows Antispyware, TweakUI, etc.)

Look forward to getting Microsoft Office 2007 installed on this PC

#32 Posted by Osprey on 16 Feb 2006 - 21:30: To those complaining about the pricing, which prices, exactly, are you referring to? I think that $149 MSRP is quite reasonable for home use. Everything else is designed for businesses and high prices are jusitfied there because good productivity software makes your profits go up, sometimes substantially.

Also, what are you comparing the pricing to? If you're comparing it to OpenOffice, then yes, of course, it's going to seem expensive. If, instead, you compare it to some of Adobe's productivity products, it's quite reasonable. Photoshop is $350 and that's just a single program, making it 3x the price of Word or Excel. If you want Adobe's Creative Suite, which is analogous to Microsoft Office Suite, you're looking at paying $1000, 2x the price of Office's most expensive.

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#33 Posted by TruckWEB on 16 Feb 2006 - 21:59: BETA 1 was not on MSDN Universal.... Why is that?

#34 Posted by toadeater on 16 Feb 2006 - 22:14: All these versions of Office and Vista sound like a disaster waiting to happen.

#35 Posted by Hottoast on 16 Feb 2006 - 22:38: wow, a lil on the pricey side

#36 Posted by Vomer on 16 Feb 2006 - 23:51: A bit too procy imo.

#37 Posted by msing on 17 Feb 2006 - 03:41: I think Microsoft will have a hard time convincing the public why they need to upgrade. Even some formats will be incompatible. It'd be a more gradual change I suppose, with the government and corporations upgrading first and then they're employees.
Office 2003 seems perfect to me. There's absolutely no bug or nuisance that's convincing me to purchace Office 2007.
I mean how much can you improve on a word processor?

#38 Posted by Mr. Dee on 17 Feb 2006 - 03:59: Word 2007 well never hold a candle to Word 6! :p

Anyway, the prices are consistent, or close to 2003. You will really know if you need this though. A lot persons I predict are gonna run both it an 2003 on the same systems because the UI is indeed a bit confusing. I had thought they were just going to chuck whats in Drop down menus in the Galleries, but they are using a completely different menu structure. None of the drop menus except for File still exist.

I am getting this at work anyway through Volume License :p and its the big kahuna Office 2007 Enterprise. For those complaining they can't afford it, stop complaining because your Mom or Dad is not gonna fork out the money for something you a child really don't need. WordPad or NotePad will do the job.

#39 Posted by xxpor on 17 Feb 2006 - 18:06: This is why MSDN pwns

#40 Posted by Smeltn on 19 Feb 2006 - 14:20: Isnt there a public beta going on with Office 2007 right now? If so where do we sign up?

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