More on Office 12


TechRepublic.com has some feature articles on Office 12:

• FAQ: Looking into Office 12 Here's what you can expect from Microsoft's radical revamp of Office, due next year.
• Office 12 makeover takes on 'feature creep' Microsoft's radical Office 12 overhaul, due next year, aims to counteract "feature creep" and wake users up to the suite's hidden treasures.
• Photo gallery: New looks for Vista, Office The September 2005 edition of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference got under way with a keynote address by Bill Gates and a "live preview" of the next version of Office.
• Blog: Microsoft Office 12--The rise of smart applications? Find out why TechRepublic's Jason Hiner is ambivalent about Bill Gates' statement at the Professional Developers Conference that Office 12 will attempt to automatically adapt its interface to the type of work that a user is doing. However, he adds, "This makes me think that we may be seeing the beginning of the smart applications of the future--applications that will be able to anticipate and help streamline rudimentary tasks."