Upgrade to office 12

[J-T]

We currently have SPS 2003 ,Exchange server 2003 and couple of more office
products. I am trying to gather some information in regards to how feasible
,expensive it is to migrate everything from current situation to next
microsoft office generation. Could someone guide me to a document so I get
some idea from.Thanks

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

We currently have SPS 2003 ,Exchange server 2003 and couple of
more office products. I am trying to gather some information in
regards to how feasible ,expensive it is to migrate everything
from current situation to next microsoft office generation. Could
someone guide me to a document so I get some idea from.Thanks

I don't think the prices have been announced yet, it's still about a
year away from release AFAIK.

 

[Harlan Grove]

J-T wrote...

We currently have SPS 2003 ,Exchange server 2003 and couple of more office
products. I am trying to gather some information in regards to how feasible
,expensive it is to migrate everything from current situation to next
microsoft office generation. Could someone guide me to a document so I get
some idea from.Thanks

Office 12 is in first stage beta testing, so anyone who's worked with
it is either a MSFT employee who could lose their job for unauthorized
descriptions of it and outside testers are under nondisclosure
agreements not to discuss it. Also, pricing probably won't be finalized
until the second half of 2006, and that only if it's looking ready to
ship by the end of the 3rd quarter or early 4th quarter.

Other than reading the blogs put out by the various project managers
for each of the Office apps, there's no detailed information available
at this time.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

You need to wait until Q2 2006 for Office 12.

hth

 

[Nehmo]

There's plenty of info about Office 12
http://groups.google.com/group/Office-12/browse_frm/thread/d34d660c81eeb5f7
How much will it cost? It'll be expensive, but everybody will get it in one
form or another.

 

[Harlan Grove]

There's plenty of info about Office 12
http://groups.google.com/group/Office-12/browse_frm/thread/d34d660c81eeb5f7
How much will it cost? It'll be expensive, but everybody will get it in one
form or another.

....

Debatable how much of the early press & MSFT info is detailed enough to
allow for transition planning. And a whole 2 threads in the Office 12
newsgroup when O12 was announced 3 months ago.

 

[Nehmo]

- Harlan Grove -

Debatable how much of the early press & MSFT info is detailed enough to
allow for transition planning.

- Nehmo -
Office 12 doesn’t have many *new* features that the masses would use.
The primary difference between it and its predecessors is the ribbon, a
thick toolbar-menu system. Sometimes people refer to it as “the new UI”.
You can learn more than you want to know by looking at Jensen’s
collection of articles:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/11/17/493890.aspx . These
aren’t critical articles, you will understand.
The ribbon is an improvement, and people already familiar with Office
apps will learn their way around it as they go. They’ll be able to use
it for serious work immediately.
I can’t say with certainty for every situation, but Office 12 installs
over Office 2003 better than Office 2003 installed over previous
versions. The installation isn’t going to be a problem.
Office’s new file types, notably docx, will be compatible once everybody
gets the free converters MS has. And users of Office 12 can optionally
save in the former formats.
The current instability problems, I assume, will be ironed out before MS
releases a version that it sells. In the meantime, it’s advisable, if
you’re using beta 1, to set autosave, called AutoRecovery, at one
minute.
When will it be released? If MS is economically smart, it’ll *move up*
the release date. There’s nothing revolutionary in this new version and
it’s almost ready as it is. MS can’t get complacent as it did with IE.
Some of its competitors aren’t taking a Christmas vacation. Somebody is
making a ribbon for OO right now.

 

[Harlan Grove]

- Harlan Grove -

- Nehmo -
Office 12 doesn’t have many *new* features that the masses would use.

....

You obviously haven't been reading the Excel 12 or Access 12 blogs. They're
changing a LOT.

If the OP's organization mostly uses Word, PowerPoint and Outlook, maybe
Office 12 won't offer much new. But if they use Excel and/or Access heavily,
this will be a major PITA upgrade because the interface is going to change
radically, and the new features are going to require that some people get
training. For Excel in particular, this will be more change than Excel 4 to
Excel 5.

 

[nehmo54]

Watch high-spirited Julie in this video:
http://snipurl.com/kvdv
She says the new Power Point is so easy to use, even blind people love
it.
Read the comments:
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=114720