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<blockquote>PDC is going to be quite the ride this year.</blockquote>

I agree. I think some people will be surprise about... well, we'll see in a few days. :-)

Yep. PDC and WinHEC are going to make for a stunning couple of weeks.

PDC and (to a lesser extent I expect) will even be quite interesting to this non-attendee.  I'll have to rely on what appears here and elsewhere to learn the public part of what happens.

"Office 14" note: If MS were to skip version numbers for cultural reasons in all cultures into which they sell, it wouldn't be possible to number versions in anything like a progression. (And I would prefer they not adopt the Tokyo addressing system.) Sticking to just the "home" culture will work, though.

I suppose it's time to speculate on Office 14's name.  (I rather like Office 14, but the year-based names have been around for a long time now (short-lived XP excepted).)  As with Windows 7, what it does is more important than what it is called.

 --John (Windows 6.1.  6 + 1 = 7, so of course it is "Windows 7")

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Honestly, I am still trying to get used to the ribbon interface. Hopefully, office 14 will have some good UI designs and functionalities.

I have been trying Open Office 3 for the past few days; it may not be as polished as Office, but certainly usable and at least for home users, it's good enough.

I know a number of people who don't like the ribbon. I like it but I'm not using office 2007 too much (other than outlook).

We are staying with 2003 at work for the forseeable future though, our users wouldn't be able to handle the ribbon and 2007 breaks too much of the customizations we have for 2003.

Office is dead. A bloated pig. A-la Vista.

Robertsjoe is barking mad, and quite possibly a bloated pig.

@gorath: No need to get personal and nasty @gorath. Moderator, please delete his comment. Thank you.

Its interesting for a Developer conference they are not giving developers early bits. Especially with Office becoming such a huge Developer platform.

As for Office being dead, I guess that would go for all the other productivity suites out there, OO.org, WordPerfect Office, iWork and even Google Docs. Have you read the OO.org Base review on eWeek? It lacks so many important features available in Microsoft Access that many Company's use that it cannot be considered a replacement.  It doesn't even support connecting up to well known technologies like ODBC.

@robertsjoe - What in the world would make you state something like "Office is dead. A bloated pig. A-la Vista."? That is simply stupid to think. Are you one of the blind Apple/Open Source fans that have been saying htat Microsoft is failing for the last 10-12 years?

Oh, and FYI...I am pretty sure that Paul won't delete gorath's post...so get over it.

--tayme

It wasn;t a personal attack , man, all I said is that you QUITE POSSIBLY may be a bloated pig. you may, also, quite possibly, be a talking and typing dog. I don;t know.

The only thing I do know is that you have some very strange opinions about office and vista.

I've noticed that many programs considered bloated run quite fast and have many great features people want.

A 1.5 TB drive can be had for under $200.

4GBs of ram for the Thinkpad I just bought my son costs 67 dollars from crucial.

I'm rethinking bloated and unresponsive.