Microsoft Office Futures

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Microsoft Office Evolution

Content Management

Collaboration Business Intelligence

Search

Unified Communications

Word Processing

Business Modelling

PresentationsBusiness Data Management

InformationManagement

Enables business productivity capabilities

Over 500 million Office users today

Thousands of commands, made intuitive

People spend more time 1-1 with Office

than their spouse!

Automated simple business processes

Microsoft vision: PC on every desktop

Contained <50 commands (Word 1.0)

Used to produce final documents

Then Now

Future…

Market Trends are Driving Office Investments

Share expertise and stay connected

Embrace millennial work-styles

Manage volumes of digital information

Work across locations and devices

Do more with less

Help diverse workforce be productive

Support broader array of devices

Manage collaboration complexity

Enable increased mobility

Reduce migration, management costs

Meet changingcustomer needs

Manage IT cost,complexity

Work

TogetherBring Ideas

to Life

Use Office

Anywhere

Simplify Deployment

& Lower Mgmt CostsMaximize

Platform Value

Connect

Share

Accomplish

Envision

Mash Up

Inform

Choice

Relevance

Power

PC

Phone

Browser

Extensible

Interoperable

Office 2010

Value Delivered in Office 2010

Work TogetherConnect. Share. Accomplish.

Bring Ideas to

Life

Use Office

AnywhereSimplify Deployment

& Lower Mgmt Costs

Maximize

Platform Value

Common Trends and Business Challenges

Share expertise and stay connected:

Increased competition demands faster response times

Technology often a barrier to meeting spontaneously

Versioning, coordination take away from delivery

Embracing millennial work-styles:

Multiple authors want to work simultaneously

Need to make social networking relevant in the workplace

Potential Cost Savings/Efficiency Gains

Reduce travel budgets by using UC technology

Teams are more productive and responsive

Replace organizational PBX

Cut costs spent on 3rd party broadcasting tools

Reduce storage and bandwidth costs

Snapshot: Working TogetherJust a couple of examples from Office 2010

Meet deadlines & reduce time spent coordinating changes with real-time team collaboration in Word 2010

Take control of your e-mail and

calendar with new shortcuts and

views in Outlook 2010

Users can:

Work with customers, partners and remote team members seamlessly across multiple networks

Save time and gain freedom with a seamless online/offline experience

IT can:

Gain even more from server investments

Drive a consistent information strategy based on SharePoint technology

SharePoint Workspace 2010Take and Work with SharePoint Lists and Libraries Offline

Value Delivered in Office 2010

Work

TogetherBring Ideas to LifeEnvision. Mash Up. Inform.

Simplify Deployment

& Lower Mgmt Costs

Maximize

Platform Value

Use Office

Anywhere

Common Trends and Business Challenges

Manage large volumes of information:

Draw insights from complex or disparate data sets

Ever-larger volumes of e-mail saps time, storage

Capture, search and reuse all types of content easily

Video is the best way to capture your audience but hogs memory and requires tools & expertise to edit

Potential Cost Savings/Efficiency Gains

Reduce training costs and increase productivity

Spend less time searching for information

Avoid agency costs by producing in-house

Reduce spending on specialized tools: records management, photo/video editing, analysis add-ins, etc.

Keep the right details in the right place by capturing and searching all types of content with OneNote 2010

Make fast, effective comparisons from

lists of data by using new conditional

formatting in Excel to visualize data

Snapshot: Bring Ideas to LifeJust a couple of examples from Office 2010

Value Delivered in Office 2010

Simplify Deployment

& Lower Mgmt Costs

Maximize

Platform Value

Bring Ideas to

LifeUse Office Anywhere

PC. Phone. Browser.

Work

Together

Common Trends and Business Challenges

Work across locations and devices:

Porting content is time consuming, leads to errors

Teams are more geographically dispersed

People want freedom to access their information from more places and on more devices

Potential Cost Savings/Efficiency Gains

Save on overhead by enabling telecommuting

Keep everyone more productive while on the go

Reduce integration costs through an extensible and interoperable platform

Extends Office to any

machine with a browser

Preserves data and

formatting changes

Exactly like: “Outlook,

Outlook Mobile and

Outlook Web Access”

OneNote and Excel allow

simultaneous editing

Snapshot: Use Office AnywhereWith the New Office Web Applications

Familiar

interface

“PC Like”

Viewing

Lightweight

Editing

Available for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote

Supported through Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari

Value Delivered in Office 2010

Maximize

Platform Value

Bring Ideas to

LifeUse Office

Anywhere

Simplify Deployment

& Lower Mgmt CostsChoice. Relevance. Power

Work

Together

Common Trends and Business Challenges

Help the diverse workforce be more productive:

IT must support broader array of devices

Manage collaboration complexity

Enable increased mobility

Potential Cost Savings/Efficiency Gains

Lower training costs

Reduce hardware costs and maintenance

Enable IT to drive innovation with less admin

Spend less time, money on desktop migration and management

Value Delivered in Office 2010

Bring Ideas to

LifeUse Office

AnywhereSimplify Deployment

& Lower Mgmt CostsMaximize Platform Value

Extensible. Interoperable.

Work

Together

Common Trends and Business Challenges

Connect systems together:

Promote common platform for streamlined operations

Use familiar Office tools to drive business processes

Connect applications across client, server & cloud

Take SharePoint & web applications offline

Potential Cost Savings/Efficiency Gains

Reduce overall system complexity

Reduce training costs

Reduce data errors & redundancy

Increase user productivity

Key Milestones: Office 2010

• Customer Feedback and Research

H2 2007

• Key Innovation Areas Locked

H1 2008• Development

and Validation

H2 2008

• Office 2010 Beta Release*

Q3 2009• Office 2010

Release*

H1 2010

*Microsoft Plan of Record date