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• Business Vista, Office slated for November 30
  Thursday 2 November 2006 – 07:05
  Barely meeting the announced November release date for the business versions of Office 2007 and the operating system Windows Vista, Microsoft has confirmed that the two software products will be released on 30 November.
• Flaw finders lay siege to Microsoft Office
  Friday 21 July 2006 – 01:37
  Responding to a steady influx of flaws in the company's Office productivity suite has occupied many of Microsoft's programmers since late 2005.
• TechEd 2006: PowerPoint sees welcome changes for Office 2007
  Monday 19 June 2006 – 10:28
  At long last, PowerPoint gets a much needed overhaul as part of Microsoft's upcoming rollout of the Office 2007 suite. Along the way, the suite's senior product manager makes some frank admissions about the way things had been done at the company of late, and why its development strategy had to change course. See the impact of their decisions in our latest Office photo gallery.
• TechEd 2006: Microsoft's high-end Office 2007 gets customization tools
  Monday 12 June 2006 – 04:01
  This morning's key announcement at TechEd 2006 may be Microsoft's introduction of server-based application customization tools for Office Enterprise 2007, the high-end distribution of the company's applications suite.
• Office 2007 SP1 To Be Released To Automatic Update In Mid-June
  Monday 12 May 2008 – 10:40
  Redmond (WA) - Microsoft continues its practice to announce Office service packs that are scheduled to become available via Microsoft Update automatic distribution at least 30 days in advance.
• Office update goes live soooner than anticpated
  Thursday 13 December 2007 – 09:40 in Networking
  RMicrosoft this week released the first major update to Office 2007, even though it wasn't expected to be available until next year.
• SMBs to get Office 2007 on Nov 30 at CompUSA
  Monday 13 November 2006 – 09:15
  Small business owners will be able to pick up a box of Vista Business and Office Small Business 2007 at certain CompuUSA stores beginning on November 30.
• Office 2007 spins to gold status
  Monday 6 November 2006 – 05:08
  Microsoft today announced that it has completed the code for the latest version of its business software suite, Microsoft Office 2007, confirming its availability to businesses this month, and general release to consumers by early next year.
• TechEd 2006: Longhorn's Terminal Services to run Office, Windows
  Friday 16 June 2006 – 04:39
  At a demonstration of new features in the latest beta edition of Windows Server "Longhorn", Microsoft revealed that the new version of Terminal Services will enable client computers to run full applications such as Word with distributed processing. Just the container application - the window - runs on the client, while the engine of the application runs through the server.
• TechEd 2006: Office 2007 "ribbon" UI extensibility demonstrated
  Monday 12 June 2006 – 12:04
  During the first unofficial day of Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference in Boston, we got a first idea how programmers will be able to embed their own .NET functions, such as from Visual C#, directly in the new ribbon of Microsoft Office 2007 - one of Microsoft's first applications ever to completely replace the venerable menu bar.
• Office Live to come with BI bite
  Tuesday 31 January 2006 – 09:32
  As details of Microsoft's Office Live beta program start to trickle out of the Redmond, Washington software giant, some industry observers are asking whether this product will hurt the established business intelligence vendors like Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion Solutions.
• Macworld 2008: Microsoft begins shipping Office 2008 for Macs
  Wednesday 16 January 2008 – 11:00
  Mac Office 2008 has begun shipping, giving owners of Apple computers a crack at the latest version of Microsoft's productivity suite.
• Ballmer: Introduction of Vista, Office 07 biggest launch event in Microsoft's history
  Thursday 30 November 2006 – 07:00
  Amid the typical marketing hyperboles tossed around at today's launch event at Nasdaq, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made one statement very clear. He referred to today as the biggest launch event in the company's history and deemed Vista and Office 2007 "the two most significant releases we've ever done."
• It's 'Office 2007,' as Microsoft reveals its upcoming suite of suites
  Thursday 16 February 2006 – 06:39
  As Microsoft announces its first official set of plans for the company's #2 source of revenue, the influence of new chief technical officer Ray Ozzie, hired last March, is certainly being felt. Groove now becomes an official Office component, as the company's all-inclusive plans for SharePoint appear to have been revised.
• Microsoft denies preparations to support OpenDoc in Office 12
  Thursday 27 October 2005 – 01:31
  A cascade of rumors regarding OpenDocument Format ended today with the final domino in the chain, Microsoft, denying it is making any plans to support ODF in its upcoming Office 12 suite. The story of the story reveals much about the state of open-source collaboration.