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Microsoft prods and probes Office 14

Testing times

By Kelly Fiveash

Posted in Software & Security, 14th January 2009 13:12 GMT

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Microsoft is testing some of the server products that will eventually be folded into the next version of the firm’s Office suite.

The software vendor hasn’t revealed when a test version of the product, code-named Office 14, will be made generally available for developers to dabble with.

"Today Microsoft provided a select group of customers early access to an Alpha version of Office server technologies," said Redmond yesterday.

"However, Microsoft is not disclosing information about the timing for a beta version at this time."

The company has also begun prodding the next version of Exchange, code-named E14.

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley has more here [1] and Neowin.net has an alleged early screenshot of Office 14 here [2]. ®