Stefan Gossner, senior engineer on the SharePoint team had this to say:
"This morning, we reached an important development milestone: the beginning of the "Office 15" Technical Preview Program. Office 15 is the codename for the next generation of the Microsoft Office products and services, and the Technical Preview is the first time we share our work with a select group of customers under non-disclosure agreements. These customers play a key role in our development process by testing early builds and providing feedback, which we incorporate into the final release."
PJ Hough, CVP of development in the Office division added:
"At this early point in our development cycle, I'm not able to share too much about Office 15, but I can tell you Office 15 is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division. With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio. Quite simply, Office 15 will help people work, collaborate, and communicate smarter and faster than ever before."
At the same time Microsoft released a preview of the SharePoint 15 SDK. Find more on that here.
Betanews.com has an interesting article on the subject, well worth a read. They don't really cover SharePoint but do suggest that for Office, version 15 could mean:
- A true 64-bit version
- Support for ARM processors
- A Metro interface
- A truly touch enabled interface
Finally if we are officially calling it "Office 15", does that mean we can expect to officially call the next version of SharePoint "SharePoint 15", instead of 212, or 2013? We shall soon find out!
1 comments:
Good post, thanks!
Office 15 is the codename for the next generation, or wave, of Office products. SharePoint 2010 is part of Office 14.
So, "SharePoint 15" will likely be named SharePoint 2013.
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