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QTS Solution Spotlight:
Microsoft Office 2007

Overview

Microsoft Office 2007 is the newest version of Microsoft Office, consisting of a wide range of client and server components that work together to enhance personal productivity, improve team collaboration, provide deeper insight into business data and allow for enhanced content management.

Microsoft Office 2007 consists of several versions, each consisting of different components.  As with prior versions, the Standard version includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.  The Professional Plus version adds Access, Publisher, InfoPath and other client access licenses, while the Enterprise version includes these pieces plus Groove and OneNote 2007.

Although there are plenty of new features and capabilities, the major enhancement of Office 2007 from a personal productivity perspective is the new User Interface, which has been refined to make it easier for users to find commands and to quickly produce professional looking documents.  Microsoft has introduced "the Ribbon" to replace the legacy menus and toolbars, providing more context sensitive command access and a more graphical experience.

The server components of Office, which are licensed separately, include Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Forms Server, Groove Server 2007, Project Server 2007, Portfolio Server 2007, PerformancePoint Server 2007, Office Communications Server 2007 (replacing LCS) and Exchange Server 2007.

Final code for Office 2007 was released to manufacturing in late November 2006, with general availability on January 30th 2007.

Key Benefits

Office 2007 provides a number of benefits, including:

  • Improved graphical user interface improves user productivity.  The Ribbon, live preview, galleries and other features combine to allow users to create good looking documents faster and with greater ease.
  • Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows for improved search capabilities.
  • Forms Server allows for creation of forms-based workflow applications.
  • XML file format reduces disk space requirements while improving document reliability and access time, and allows for development of new data interfaces.

Additional Information

Contact your QTS account manager for more information on how Microsoft Office 2007 can fit into your environment, and what benefits you would realize.

This site last updated 11/25/06
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