Office 2007 goes gold, new tools paraded

Microsoft has announced that Office 2007, the new version of the company's industry-standard productivity suite, has been released for manufacturing. Now for the important part: Why should we care? Welcome to Software Marketing 101: If you've got new tools and functionality, flaunt them like there's no tomorrow. To that end, Microsoft has announced that Office 2007 "includes the largest investment in deployment and management tools in the product's history." They include Office Migration Planning Manager, Open XML Formats Conversion Toolkit, the Business Desktop Deployment 2007 Solution Accelerator and the Office Resource Kit. Everyone loves deployment tools, but IT departments are going to need an actual reason to deploy in the first place too. To take a look at the new features that Office 2007 will bring to your users, check out this Office 2007 preview.

For more on Office 2007:
- see this ZDnet article

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