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Office Product Name Changes

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The lineup of Office-branded products will change with the release of the Office 2010 suite. Many products in addition to the suite included the prefix Office in their names, as in Microsoft Office Visio 2007. All of these products will drop the prefix in their 2010 versions. Microsoft will continue to call the Office suite itself Microsoft Office with an edition name (e.g., Microsoft Office Professional Plus).

2007 Product Name 2010 Product Name
Office Access Access
Office Business Scorecard Manager (Discontinued)
Office Communications Server Communications Server
Office Communicator Communicator
Office Excel Excel
Office Forms Server (Discontinued)
Office Groove SharePoint Workspace
Office Groove Server Groove Server
Office InfoPath InfoPath
Office Live Meeting Live Meeting
Office OneNote OneNote
Office Outlook Outlook
Office Outlook with Business Contact Manager

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