Gates: Office 2007 will enable a new class of application
Published: 22 Mar 2006 18:45 GMT
The next version of Microsoft Office will be "dramatically better" as a platform for creating applications, according to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect. He announced the features that developers can expect to see in Office 2007 at the Office System Developers Conference 2006 on Tuesday, at the company's headquarters in Redmond.
Office 2007, due for release in autumn this year, will feature a much greater level of programmability, including server-side processing of Office documents and other business information. While the Office applications have been scriptable for many years, and available to use in custom-written applications in recent versions, Office 2007 will allow developers to work directly with XML-based files. The availability of server-side processing components for Office documents will allow documents to be changed as part of a custom-written application.
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