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The Edge posted on Economy is shown 31 what author He Warren concedes is a rumor -- at least
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Whether Microsof company would make Office 15 a Community application is something Microsof
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download online. Community -- in case you require a refresher -- is a design language and
style that Microsof company is using in a number of its products, from Windows Phone to
Windows 8! Metro-style apps, in Windows 8 parlance, are "modern, immersive" apps which are
developed using the WinRT Windows runtime that was introduced with Windows 8!
Despite the fact that the Technical Survey of Office 15 for select customers and partners
kicked off yesterday, we still don't know for sure which way the Softies have decided to go
with Office 15: Community, non-Metro or somewhat Community!
At the Financial Analyzer Meeting in September 2011, CEO Charlie Ballmer told attendees that
Microsof company was "thinking hard" as to what it would mean to make Office 15 a Metro-style
iphone app! But Ballmer never actually said that Microsoft's plan was to go this route!
Some folks have assumed that Microsof company must go Community in order to make Office 15
more touch-centric and suited for Windows 8 pills and touch Personal computers! But Microsof
company design director Charlie Kaneko told the Edge late last year that this was not
necessarily the case!
From a synopsis of the Kaneko interview on the Edge:
"(The large Community style program, designed for touch interaction, doesn't scale in an
obvious way to software like Office that has a lot of lustrous information! While Community
attempts to eliminate what Microsof company calls 'chrome', he says that chrome has
traditionally served a practical purpose in packed applications, and the design team now has
to express group and visual power structure with arrangement, layout, font climbing, and
contrast ratios! inch
There's also, obviously, the requirement for speed in terms of running out the next version of
Office! Microsof company officials haven't said when that is expected Office 15 to be
generally available, but I continue to hear the objective is end of appointments 2012! That's
not a whole lot of time to redo Office and all of its many piece parts as Metro-style apps --
even if you give the Office team a generous head start and say they potentially could have
initiated working on a Metro-style Office back in Economy is shown 2011, when Microsof company
first showed off early Windows 8 prototypes!
If Microsof company isn't redoing Office 15 as a Metro-style iphone app, this means at least
the Windows 8 version of Office 15 will be a Desktop iphone app! Desktop apps are "legacy
style" Windows apps that are designed to work on x86-based versions of Windows 8! Last we
heard formally, there also would be support for Desktop apps on ARM-based Windows 8, but
Microsof company officials have declined to confirm this remains the case, after some rumours
to the contrary!
Also, last we head, non-Metro-style applications would work on Windows 8 on ARM! However,
legacy Windows apps would need to be recompiled/rewritten in order to run on the Windows 8 ARM
platform!
So here are my questions after trying to piece this all together:
How many different versions of Office 15 for Windows will there be? In other words, will there
be an Office 15 for Windows 8; plus some kind of Office 15 update SKU for Windows 7?
Think about Apple support? Will there be both an Office 15 equivalent for Macintosh personal
computer OSX and iOS (the rumored ipad version)?
What do you still want to know about Office 15's "Metro-ness"? Do you think Office 15 be a
Metro-style suite? And does it matter whether it's not?
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