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Office "12" NOT Office 2007, yet

There were several articles (like this one from bink.nu) floating around the internet this morning about the Office "12" product becoming branded Office 2007.  However, company officials have informed us they have not locked on a final name, but that this name is a consideration. They have also confirmed that they are still on track to ship Office "12" in the second half of 2006. 

So, Welcome back Office "12"...for now.

 

Josh

 

The name possiblity was orignially posted at deansweb2004.com

 

UPDATE 2/16/06  -Microsoft has announced the new name and pricing for Office "12" and it is in fact now called 2007.

http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/02/15/915.aspx

Posted Jan 25 2006, 09:14 AM by Josh Phillips

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wrong wrote re: Office "12" NOT Office 2007, yet
on 01-25-2006 4:39 PM
ill confirm its 2007. Why? because microsoft uses even numbers for mac versions and odd numbers for windows versions. they have allways used year numbers except that once and it wont happen again. Watch it be 2007 ;)
Josh Phillips wrote re: Office "12" NOT Office 2007, yet
on 01-25-2006 4:52 PM
I didn't say it wouldn't be 2007. If you read this again you will notice that I have simply said they it isn't 2007, yet. This was directly from MS representatives and basically it means while this may in fact be the final name they have not made that decision. You are right they typically use years, but there is also precidence for not using years. So, any speculation that the name will be Office 2007 is just that speculation and people should be informed of such.
Brian wrote re: Office "12" NOT Office 2007, yet
on 01-25-2006 11:50 PM
"Except for that once."

I think more MS products use standard versioning shcemes, not years. Exchange 5.5, NT4, Windows 3.1, etc.

I think if you take all the MS products and figure out what versioning scheme they use, you will find out that more products use their own and that this whole "year" thing is actually quite new.
Nico wrote re: Office "12" NOT Office 2007, yet
on 01-26-2006 11:09 AM
I think Office 12 will be Office 2006 because in PowerPoint 12, you can read, in file options, "PowerPoint 2006" !!!!
PatriotB wrote re: Office "12" NOT Office 2007, yet
on 01-26-2006 12:15 PM
Personally, I'd prefer "Office 12.0" as the release. There is indeed precedence for moving from year-based versioning to traditional versioning: Windows Mobile 2003 -> Windows Mobile 5.0.

But unfortunately I doubt they'll do that here.
Josh Phillips wrote re: Office "12" NOT Office 2007, yet
on 01-26-2006 3:24 PM
Yeah I am partial to the O12 name myself.
Simon Jones wrote re: Office "12" NOT Office 2007, yet
on 01-26-2006 4:44 PM
I think "except for that once" must refer to "Office XP" which was marketing madness. Users were, and still are, confused by Windows and Office both getting the same suffix. Even worse is the fact the the applications in the "Office XP" suite are "Word 2002", "Excel 2002", etc.

If they name "Office 12" as "Office Vista" I will personally disembowl as many MS Marketing Droids as I can find! Stop trying to confuse the users!
Ali wrote re: Office "12" NOT Office 2007, yet
on 01-27-2006 6:34 PM
Perhaps they could name it O123, Josh? :D
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