Less obscure Microsoft Office 14 64-bit evidence
Late last month, my colleague Ed Bott stumbled across evidence hinting at the availability of Office 14 (2010) targeted for 64-bit architectures. While Ed found explicit markings indicating such, they were buried in a Windows 7 beta build – a build that isn’t representative of final product (especially visible if you’ve been keeping up with the leaked builds). With similar 64-bit claims back in Office 12 (2003 2007) days, I dismissed the evidence as mere Microsoft internal dog-fooding of some sort.
Last night, however – dum dum dummmm – Microsoft made an Office 14 add-in publicly available for download. While I’m not sure why these add-ins are showing in the Microsoft Download Center, given we can’t get the software (officially), it’s an actual binary generated from an Office 14 SDK targeting 64-bit Office.
Now to get some 64-bit Office 14 bits to play with…
office 12 was office 2007 they skiped office 13 becasue 13 is an unlucky number
Correct (I didn’t know they skipped 13!). The full version for Word 2007 SP1 is:
Microsoft® Office Word 2007 (12.0.6331.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6320.5000)
yea thats what mine says in word 2007 sp1
i would of thought rafael knew office 12 was 2007
I personally hate it when Microsoft or any other company skips version numbers. “Unlucky number”… we are not in the medieval time. Does Microsofts burn witches too? Skipping a number makes thousand people ask “what happened to Office 13″ etc. like Al Lowe did with his game “Leisure Suit Larry” years ago.
Some peoples are missing some thingssss :O:O:O
@jake: Was a typo, thanks for the heads up.
I was thinking that office 13 just happened to be the Mac version… since they are released seperate of each other…
No, it’s just more 7 love: Windows 7, Office 14, Xbox 720 :-)
[offtopic] i heard it was gonna be called the Xbox eXtreme [/offtopic]
(offtopic) isant xbox 720 the made up name buy some people?
[offtopic] yeah, both the xbox 720 and the xbox eXtreme are just rumors… imho, i think that the 720 would be a lame name for the next-gen xbox, seeing as it would make the development team and marketing teams both appear really lazy, and uncreative [/offtopic]
Hey, Symbian skipped S60 4th edition.
@Stephen: It’s (4) also a subject of superstitson elsewhere in the world.
Shame they also didn’t skip v14. 14 in Chinese sounds like “Definitely Die” and is incredibly unlucky in Asian culture.