Office 15 hits technical preview ahead of summer beta

Summer?

I was under the impression that the release would be February!

Oh well.

By rhythm on 30 Jan 2012

Summer?

I was under the impression that the release would be February!

Oh well.

By rhythm on 30 Jan 2012

15? That's imaginative.

I didn't think it was possible to have a less interesting name than using the year of release, but MS have certainly managed to do that.

By SwissMac on 30 Jan 2012

@SwissMac

Yeah cos 10.1.1 is pure poetry...

By nik_endeavour on 30 Jan 2012

Trademarks

Well, we've run out of unclaimed words - numbers are all that's left.

By dubiou on 30 Jan 2012

@Swissmac

.
You are a sad little man, aren't you?

Sitting, day after day, looking at a PC oriented magazine site just to post puerile comments attacking MS and Windows and supporting Apple and the mac.

I wonder if there are similarly pathetic Windows fans infesting Apple oriented sites posting stupid comments.

I hope not.

By qpw3141 on 31 Jan 2012

Sorry if it's not clear from the story, but Office 15 is only the codename. There's been some speculation it will be called Office 2012 or 2013, but Microsoft has apparently said it doesn't like how that dates the product, so who knows.

Nicole Kobie
News Editor

By Nicole_Kobie on 31 Jan 2012

@qpw3141

It's known as 'trolling', as in the way a fishing vessel will let out lines with several baited hooks & see what bites.

Don't be too hard on the poor chap, it's likely the only attention he gets...

By greemble on 31 Jan 2012

@Nicole

"but Microsoft has apparently said it doesn't like how that dates the product" -
Well that trend has been entrenched in the MS product line since at least Windows 95 so they've had a decade or so to think about it.
I've never understood the trend myself and I've always thought that it dates the product.

By JohnWaller on 31 Jan 2012

Dating the produce

Good marketing, I thought - means it's clearly time to update, i.e. buy the new version!


"Still using Office 2003?"

"Yes, it works well & everyone here is very familiar with it."

"But, but, but - that's nearly ten years old... you really got to get up to date or you'll be left behind!"

By greemble on 1 Feb 2012

produce?

Sorry, product - hardly like a basket of vegetables, really.

Although the Marketing Dept. would like us to think so.

"Get the 'Fresh, New' Version - the old one is getting stale!"

By greemble on 1 Feb 2012

Clutching at straws...

Eh SwissMac?

"Office 15, as the release is currently CODENAMED"

But I'll let you get back to the marvel that is OS X 10.7.3.

By Lacrobat on 1 Feb 2012

It's known as 'trolling'

You can see that, I can see that.

I guess there's no active moderation on these response pages that might be able to see it as well.

By Lacrobat on 1 Feb 2012

Office 15

Each version of office has a name; Office 98, XP,2010 etc, under that (look in the programs and Office file) they have all been known to the software as Office xx; Office 2010 is 14, so why surprise at 15? In the end what it is called is less important than what it does Microsoft. Office is now a very mature software, so far more important than name (Office X5??) is does it make doing what you want to do easier, or do you simply have to wade through more complicated arrangements to find what you want. Surveys have shown Word, Excel do more than everything (all but a small percentage of users) want to do already. It is now time to simplify.

By JohnMyatt on 2 Feb 2012