Office 13?
Microsoft have been using internal numbers for their major Office release for some time:
Office 9 = Microsoft Office 2000
Office 10 = Microsoft Office XP
Office 11 = Microsoft Office 2003
And right now they are in pre-beta with Office 12… yet to be assigned a product name (or yet to be announced depending on whether you believe what you hear).
A curiosity though, I’ve just been conversing with a product manager in the globalisation team over a feature that the company I work for would dearly like, during this conversation she mentioned that the feature in question would not be in Office 12, but some part of it will be considered for Office 14.
Office 14? So what happened to Office 13?
Could it be that Microsoft are superstitious enough to not want to number a feature version of Office as Office 13?
Or am I reading too much into this, and did they just use Excel to do the numbering?
Maybe someone should point out to them that missing 13 doesn’t make it any less Office 13.
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Aitor
Maybe they already have the feature requirements for Office 13 and they’re planning way ahead for Office 14?
Aug 10th, 2005
DavidK
Nope… the O13 specs haven’t been worked on yet, they are basically currently made up of “things that we didn’t get into O12″. So they really do seem to be skipping O13 and going straight to O14.
Aug 12th, 2005
John
Guys guys guys calm down would you. Are you guys office freaks or what. in the end of the day the main thing is that you complete your tasks such as creating a doc. Who cares about new versions or upcoming ones. So if i were you i would not waste my time on speculations or assumptions. Just be normal go out and enjoy life instead of digging information about office 13 or 14. You guys are brain washed or what!!!
Nov 29th, 2005
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