Seattle Times Reporter Brier Dudley has an intriguing follow-up to my blog publish yesterday about the forthcoming Microsoft kitchen client.(And only for the file,
Purchase Office 2010, from what I can inform,
Office Pro 2007, the kitchen customer isn;t a special edition of Vista. It;s a lot more of a software program layer that will “extend” Windows. Think of it being far more like the Origami Experience pack for Ultra-Mobile PCs.)Dudley says Microsoft had a 50-person team working on a kitchen PC/services product that was code-named “Ohana,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007,” but that project had fizzled.Ah! So that;s what Ohana is/was. I wrote about Ohana back in December 2006 and called it some kind of Family Center project/product.I hear the kitchen client project is alive and well. Perhaps it was moved to a different group or team,
Office 2007 Professional Key, or morphed from a new Windows SKU into an add-on software program layer? The way I;m hearing about it,
Office 2010 Standard Key, it definitely would fit in well with Microsoft;s overall “software+services” mandate.Anyone else know much more about the past or future of Ohana and/or Microsoft;s Kitchen consumer?