Business Applications and Services

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration and content management. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s technology... more

Most of Microsoft’s business applications are on track for updates in June of 2010 when the company plans the next versions of the Office suite, SharePoint Server, Visio, and the Project line. Exchange released a major update in Nov. 2009, and the company plans to update online services based on its server applications.

Office Suite and Visio

The Office suite and the Visio diagramming products are due for new versions in June 2010, which, among other things, will take advantage of new versions of SharePoint products for collaboration and reporting.

(For a timeline of recent and future versions, see the illustration “Office and Visio Overview“. For an overview of earlier Office versions, including service pack release history and life cycle support dates, see the chart “Past Office Versions“.)

Office Suite

The Office suite, Microsoft’s most widely used client application for business, supports document editing, data access, e-mail, presentations, and collaboration. It ships in multiple editions that include combinations of the following applications:

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