A month ago, Microsoft officials acknowledged the identify and one characteristic with the company;s forthcoming Office 2010 Pro As well as SKU. Thank you to a new slide from an alleged Microsoft presentation, now we know a bit much more about what;s likely to debut in that edition.Microsoft admitted in Could possibly — after word leaked via Twitter that the business was renaming its Groove online/offline synchronization capability to “SharePoint Workspace Manager” — that the newly minted SharePoint Workspace and OneNote would be part of the Workplace 2010 Pro As well as SKU. Enterprise officials refused to say anything more about which other applications and features will be part of that SKU.On June 18, on his UX Evangelist blog, Stephen Chapman has posted a slide, allegedly from Microsoft,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, that shows what other features are slated to be part of this new Office 2010 SKU. The feature set for the Pro As well as SKU looks like this: WordExcelPowerPointOutlookOneNotePublisherAccessIn foPath (electronic forms client)Communicator (corporate instant-messaging client)SharePoint Workspace Office 2010 Pro Plus will add tighter server integration, according to the slide. Not only will the desktop client include extra direct ties to SharePoint Server,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, but it sounds like it also could add deeper links with Office Communications Server and Microsoft;s IP Rights Management technology.The slide also includes acknowledgement of yet another alleged Office 2010 SKU, which Microsoft has yet to announce officially: Workplace 2010 Enterprise. That SKU will include the identical line-up of features as to what;s in the Workplace 2010 Pro Plus SKU, according to the slide. If it is anything like Windows 7 Enterprise, Workplace 2010 Enterprise will be available to volume licensees with Software Assurance only.(Given Chapman;s past track record unearthing Microsoft presentations, I;m pretty confident this slide is real. I;ve asked Microsoft whether officials willl acknowledge that this slide and the information on it is real. I;m not hopeful that they;ll do so,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, but I;ll update this post if and when I hear back. Update: Microsoft officials declined to comment on the slide and information on it,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, beyond the fact that OneNote and SharePoint Workspace will be part of an Office 2010 SKU known as Pro As well as.)Microsoft is planning to roll out invitation-only Community Technology Previews (CTPs) of Workplace 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in July. A leaked CTP build of the Workplace 2010 client suite leaked to the Web in mid-May,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, and was widely downloaded from torrents.A public Workplace 2010 beta is slated for later this year. Microsoft is aiming to deliver the final Office 2010 in the first half of 2010, organization officials have said. Microsoft still has yet to unveil the planned Workplace 2010 SKU line-up or pricing.