Gates spills details on Office 12
eWeek | at | by Mike
Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, on Thursday will confirm that the first beta testing cycle for Office 12, the next version of its desktop productivity suite, will begin this fall and that it currently plans to ship the final suite of products in the second half of 2006.
Gates will make that announcement in his keynote address, titled "The New World of Work" and which he will deliver to 100 CEOs from among the top 1,000 global companies Thursday morning at the ninth-annual CEO Summit at the Redmond, Wash., campus.