Microsoft: Office 12 & Windows Vista

http://search-engines-web.com/ notes Microsoft on Tuesday outlined plans to expand its test version of Windows Vista, the next version of its flagship operating system.

The company is launching a “community technology preview” program for Vista, offering interim updates of the operating system in between its official beta releases. Microsoft has increasingly been using such previews as a way to offer more frequent test builds to developers.

The Post reports The latest version of Microsoft Corp.’s Office software will try to anticipate and automatically offer the tools a user is most likely to want during a specific task, in one of several enhancements designed to help the company best one of its biggest competitors: itself.

September 14, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Porch Geese says:
    September 14, 2005 at 1:36 am

    They’re still drinking THAT koolaid?

    The latest version of Microsoft Corp.’s Office software will try to anticipate and automatically offer the tools a user is most likely to want during a specific task …

    I guess since the set of truly useful features was completed about 3 versions ago, they have to figure out what kind of chrome and tail-fins they can throw into the mix to convince people that there’s actually some new value in there. But come on! Didn’t they learn ANYTHING from the trainwreck that was clippy. I guess not, because they certainly didn’t learn it with clippy’s ancestor, Bob. Heck, they even resurrected that dog from Bob to be the annoying help in WinXP.

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