owc12 <-anyone knows what's new?

[Richard]

there is a owc 12.0.4512.1014 on download.microsoft.com
anyone knows what's new?
and why ms said that there will be no owc12 while there is now?

Richard

 

[Paul Randall]

Hi, Richard
I've recently started playing with OWC. I had already installed version 10,
and today I installed version 11 from here: tinyurl.com/5dfrx
When using version 10's CLSID, the 'about box' indicates it is Version
10.0.0.6765.
When using version 11's CLSID, the 'about box' indicates it is Version
12.0.0.4815.

I think Microsoft just got the numbering wrong.

-Paul Randall

 

[Paul Randall]

Back on Dec 14, 2006, Alvin Bruney posted:
<quote>
Here is the official word from Microsoft.

In general users should not see any functionality differences between the
version online prior to November 9th and the
current version. The only real difference between these versions is that
the current version is built using the Office 12 build process and the old
version was built using the old Office 11 build process. (Since the
owc11.exe shipped with Project Server 2007 we updated the bits to use the
new build process). The change in the build process may result in slightly
different setup UI but should not change any of the OWC functionality. No
new functionality was added to the most recent version (release on Nov.
9th).

The current owc11.exe bits online should contain the same GUIDs as they did
previously. If users are seeing different GUIDs I ask that they provide
back additional details about the GUIDs they are seeing so we can
investigate, but as far as the OWC team is aware these GUIDs should be the
same.
</quote>

Apparently OWC is not distributed with Office 2007 -- thus it is unlikely an
OWC12 will be released.

-Paul Randall

 

[Richard]

Thanks,

Richard