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.