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Update: Microsoft to alpha-test Office 14 before end of year

Deadline to participate is Aug. 28

August 19, 2008 12:00 PM ET

IDG News Service - Microsoft Corp. will begin alpha-testing the next version of Office in November or December, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft employee that was later pulled from the Web.

Microsoft is calling for people to be part of a technology adoption program, or TAP, that will give them an early opportunity to test the monitoring and analytics components of Office PerformancePoint Server, wrote Hayley Rixon, who works on the Microsoft business intelligence team.

The TAP for this product will be a part of the TAP for Office 14, which will be alpha-tested beginning in the "November/December time frame this year," according to the blog posting. Office PerformancePoint Server is business performance analysis software that will be a part of the Office 14 release.

While the blog posting was live on Microsoft's Technet site on Monday afternoon Eastern time, by afternoon on the West Coast the Web site was no longer working. The post also no longer appears on Rixon's blog.

Microsoft could not be reached for comment today about the blog post no longer being active. However, on Monday, Microsoft said that while the Office team is working on the next version, "it is too early to discuss specific features, capabilities or timing" for the product.

The deadline for submissions to be a part of the Office PerformancePoint Server TAP is Aug. 28, according to the post.

Office is the most widely used productivity software in the world, though competitors such as Google and IBM are competing with Microsoft by offering free office productivity applications.

With the latest version, Office 2007, Microsoft has begun to expand business versions of Office to include collaboration and business-intelligence capabilities, as well as links to Microsoft's enterprise applications and database. Though Microsoft has divulged few details about Office 14, the company probably will expand these features and links in the next release.


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