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Zeichick’s Take: Collective yawns about the Microsoft Office stack


By Alan Zeichick
April 20, 2009 — 
Has the world changed? Microsoft disclosure of the timeframe and official naming of its forthcoming Exchange, SharePoint and Project servers, as well as the rest of the Office stack, was met with a collective yawn by virtually everyone.

Perhaps it’s because these announcement have been leading out in dribbles for months. As one reporter said to me, there was no news in the news. Still, that’s never stopped everyone from getting all hot and bothered at the slightest dribbleware coming out of Redmond before. What’s changed?

In case you missed it, here’s what Microsoft revealed last week:

• Exchange Server 2010 entered public beta last week, and should ship in 2H 2009.

• Office 2010, including SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010, should enter a "technical preview" period in 3Q 2009, and should "release to manufacturing" in 1H 2010.

The most chatter seemed to be that Microsoft changed the naming conventions for SharePoint. The previous version was named Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and was referred to by insiders as "MOSS." The new revision officially shortens the name to SharePoint Server 2010. No more MOSS here, as the SharePoint Team Blog explains:

The first thing you’ll notice is that the MOSS acronym goes away with the new name since Office is no longer in the SharePoint official name. No one should worry that SharePoint doesn’t work great with Office 2010 since we removed Office from the name, just like people didn’t worry whether SharePoint was a great portal product when we removed Portal from the 2007 name.

The primary reason why we took Office out of the name: lots of folks associate the name Office with the Office client. We wanted to take the opportunity to reestablish the Office name and brand to be synonymous with the client suite. I say “Give the people what they Want” so everyone should immediately think of Microsoft Office = Office apps.

Don’t try to acronym Microsoft SharePoint Server to MSS since MSS is already taken by Microsoft Search Server. Just remember, SharePoint is SharePoint is SharePoint.

When Microsoft announces updates to some of its most valuable software products (after the Windows operating system itself), and the most interesting part is a minor name change, it makes you wonder: Why does anyone care? Write me at feedback@bzmedia.com.

Alan Zeichick is editorial director of SD Times. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/zeichick. Read his blog at ztrek.blogspot.com.


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