What CIOs need to know about Office 12
There’s a thoughtful article by Mark Long over at Top Tech News on “What CIOs need to know about Office 12″. It’s well worth a glance if you’re considering deploying the productivity suite in your business next year.
It’s generally supportive, but has a word of caution about security issues, which it admits won’t be announced until closer to release. “The good news is that the changes underneath the hood are expected to bring a much broader benefit to other applications and processes throughout the enterprise. But with Office 12 reaching even deeper than the software giant’s offerings do today, should CIOs be worried about escalating security risks?”
Office 12 is transforming from a personal productivity tool to a group productivity collaboration program. The aim is revolutionary as well as evolutionary :
Office 12 is being constructed right on top of many of the elements of Microsoft’s Windows Server, which means it will include a whole new series of technologies, such as Microsoft’s SharePoint Server, Form Services, and Excel Services, which are all new elements of the software giant’s Office and Information Worker platforms, Microsoft senior vice president Steven Sinofsky told an audience of developers last month.
Today, the term SharePoint merely encompasses Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server, Sinofsky said. Microsoft will begin to use the term to refer to the entire Information Worker Platform on the server, beginning with the release of Office 12.
[From TopTechNews]
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