If you’re waiting to get your hands on office online, you’re going to have to just keep on waiting. Turns out that less than 1,000 Microsoft employees are currently using office online as part of a test that’s slated to go through till February, at least.  Consumers will get the opportunity to check the Office online out sometime in 2009, when however, remains to be seen.
Not much has been said about when Office Online will be ready, or, for that matter, even when consumers will actually be able to start playing with it. Ideally,  consumers will get a peek at …read more

Office 14, code-name for the next version of productivity suite from Microsoft, is scheduled to release by 2009. Here are some hint links about this news:

Microsoft Site Leak Hints at 2009 Release for Office 14 from PC World and Computer World.
Geek Valley from Blogspot.
Yahoo! News feed from PC World.

All links provides similar contents and is authored by Elizabeth Montalbano, from the IDG News Service.

Few years back (that’s around 2005, if I am not mistaken), we heard about Office 12 and made a buzz in the office suite industry since, of course, it’s from Microsoft? Partly, I suppose, but it is due to the many advanced features it has and most noticeably its new user interface. Well, that was (again) few years back.
As the trend today, most applications are going web-based, commonly labeled as SaaS (Software as a Service), Microsoft also aims to bring their Office suite online but limited.
Bill Gates, the ever rich and ever famous man, delivered a speech during the last …read more