office 2010 company formally announced that the Technical Survey of its next release of Microsof company Office, code-named Office 15, has initiated! According to PJ Hough, who runs a cubicle division at Microsof company, "everyone will have a chance to try a cubicle 15 public beta later come july 1st! inch

My ZDNet colleague Betty Jo Foley says her sources tell her that the goal is to release Office 15 to manufacturing before the end of the season!

That ambitious schedule says a lot about the solidity of microsoft publisher 2007, if past experience is any guide!

During recent release series, publisher 2010 has monitored Windows in predictable fashion! Office 2007 shipped at the same time as Windows Windows vista! Office 2010 lagged Windows 7 by a one fourth or two! With Office 2010, a Technical Survey was presented around the same time as the Windows 7 release candidate! A cubicle 2010 beta appeared around the same time as general accessibility to Windows 7!

A little lag at the office schedule compared to Windows makes sense from a business perspective! Office is still an enterprise product, and only the most daring businesses are deploying a new Windows version on the day it's released! In addition, some Office features depend on underlying OS IN THIS HANDSET capabilities! Having a free beta available with a finished (or nearly so) os is a good path for corporate customers to kick the wheels of both products!

When i was talking about Office 15 with a colleague a few weeks ago, I said I expected it in the first half of 2013! This advanced schedule suggests that Microsoft's development teams for both Windows and Office are hitting on all cylinders! What's most impressive about the Office headline is the way that all the separate products are finally being specific on a single timeline:

With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our fog up services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio!

Based on this schedule, I think it's strongly possible we'll see Windows 8 finished and delivered to OEMs before Labor Day! ARM pills managing a survey version of a"Metro-ized" Office could even be available at the same time!

Over the weekend, a number of my more hesitant journalist and analyzer friends expressed doubts about Microsoft's progress with Windows 8, with at least one assuming firmly that Windows 8 will slip into 2013!

This headline tells me that the Windows team might be preparing a big upside surprise for those skeptics!