Is Microsoft Office Enterprise in for a significant price decrease?

The tea leaves are pointing that way. It’s about $49 per seat per year right now, and Trefis figures it could hit $40 in the next seven years.

InfoWorld Tech Watch.

Microsoft pulling user-submitted Office templates

If you’ve ever submitted a template, graphic or video to Office.com, better make sure you have a copy. And if you’ve never looked through the (free) collection, now would be a good time to download whatever strikes your fancy. Microsoft is discontinuing the template collection, and removing all user-submitted templates.

Details in my InfoWorld Tech Watch blog.

The senseless panic of Office 15 programming

There are all sorts of echoes around the blogosphere about HTML5 and JavaScript support in Office 15.

It’s old news. Microsoft Channel 9 has been talking about it for months.

Here’s the whole story. InfoWorld Tech Watch.

Microsoft reels in new Office/BPOS cloud customers

Things may not be as they seem.

See my InfoWorld Tech Watch post.

OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice?

Tough choice, and MS Office compatibility continues to be problematic, especially with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.

See Neil McAllister’s InfoWorld Applications blog.

The road to Office 365: What Microsoft learned about renting Office

Ten years ago, Microsoft tried to rent Office XP – and failed miserably. See my InfoWorld Tech Watch blog.

The road to Office 365: Office Web Apps go global… sorta

If you’ve read the same “news” I’ve read, you might be wondering why MS is suddenly rolling out Office Web Apps to 150 countries.

I rake a little muck in my InfoWorld Tech Watch blog.

Office Genuine Advantage gets the axe

Microsoft just  posted a very bizarre notification saying that the Office Genuine Advantage program has been “retired.”

OGA, like Windows Genuine Advantage, is the method Microsoft uses to verify that you’re running a “genuine” copy of Office, prior to downloading/installing freebies and some patches for Office.

“The Office Genuine Advantage program has been retired and the features of the OGA Notifications tool will no longer be active.”

If true, this would be one of the biggest Office news items to hit this year…

I would assume – perhaps incorrectly – that making this kind of change will require some sort of change to Office, running on customers’ machines. I’ve asked MS for clarification.