Next MS Office? Here's what I'd add, delete
ZDNet | at | by Mike
If you were responsible for building Microsoft Office, what would you do with the next version? This is a constant question at Microsoft, where they generally think a couple of releases ahead but still end up cramming in a bunch of last-minute changes to keep up with the current market. I don't know the precise schedule, but I'd expect the next release of Office to show up in a year or less. That means there's still plenty of time to make such late changes--and I have a few I'd like to suggest. For example:
- Better media editing
- Give Outlook better spam filtering
- Make Office a platform for Web-services development
- Expand "smart tags."