Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Microsoft is set to unveil its long-awaited branding, packaging, and pricing for the next version of Office, which is expected to be available later this year. As widely expected, the product, code-named Office 12, will be dubbed Office 2007. And while neither retail nor business customers should see much of a difference in pricing between it and its predecessor, the company has made some changes in packaging and branding, particularly to the Office suites that business customers typically buy, according to Parri Munsell, an information worker group program manager at Microsoft. The changes reflect Microsoft's aim to make Office more of a collaboration suite that connects employees throughout the organization than a set of productivity applications that each employee uses, Munsell said.
