Will firms balk at Microsoft's program?
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft next week will release the first widely available beta of InfoPath, a new application for organizing and sharing data that will be included in the next version of Office, but analysts say the learning curve will be steep. The Redmond, Wash.-based company is positioning the product, in part, as a tool to let data migrate from one application in Office to another through Extensible Markup Language (XML). With InfoPath, a sales manager could create a form to which team members could submit numerical data from Excel and notes from Word. The two applications would work harmoniously on the same page and allow for automatic updates.
It will be one of two new applications in Office 11. The other, OneNote, is like Word but lets users write notes anywhere on the screen.