Here’s an exciting piece of news from Microsoft, the U.S. based multinational company that started hitting the electronics and computing world early this morning, i.e. Microsoft has started up with the technical preview of their upcoming venture Office 15.

Office 15 is the codename for the next generation version of their about to release Microsoft Office Suite. The Company has started up with the Technical Preview of the product and it is notable that it is for the first time that the company is sharing their work, though with a group of selected customers and that too under non-disclosure agreements or NDAs.

This invite only program will let a selected few to use the upcoming Office Suite and it aims at getting improvement ideas from the users which will prove beneficial in the development process of the Suite. However, one can expect the Public Beta version of the same to be available sometimes in the coming summers.

“These [technical preview] customers play a key role in our development process by testing early builds and providing feedback, which we incorporate into the final release,” said P. J. Hough, the Chief Vice President of Development in the Office Division of Microsoft.

If you are feeling left out and want to taste the earlier version of Office 15, you’ll have to wait till this summer, when the first Beta version of the software will be launched. Hough promised that everyone will get a chance to taste the flavor then; however, he didn’t give any details about it yet.


“At this early point in our development cycle, I’m not able to share too much about Office 15, but I can tell you Office 15 is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division.” Hough furthered.

Microsoft released the Office 2010 in the April of 2010 after bringing out its Technical Preview in July 2009, followed by a Public Beta in mid-November. If the company follows the same trend, one can expect to have the retail release of Office 15 sometimes in the first quarter of 2013.

Important to note that along with the bringing up of the latest version of Office 15, Microsoft is also coming up with updates in lots of their products like in their cloud services, servers, Office mobile & PC clients, Exchange, Office 365, SharePoint, Lync, Visio, and Project.

The next generation version of their Office Suite may have a name like Microsoft Office 2012 or 2013 when it finally gets released as Office 15 is just the codename.

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