Leaked Office 15 / Office 2014 Screenshots and Details

The first leaked screenshots and details of Office 15 / Office 2014 are now available in the wild, at just four months after Office 2010 was released to manufacturing, and just a couple of months since the General Availability deadline. 
Office 15 is of course the next major iteration of Microsoft’s productivity suite, and the successor of Office 2010, which was built using the codename Office 14. 


Various third party reports pointed out that the Redmond company had already kicked off the planning for Office 15 even ahead of the finalization of Office 2010.

However, only now, Russian website Wzor is offering actual proof that the software giant indeed started the development process of Office 2010’s successor.

It appears that Microsoft has compiled a few very early development builds of Office 15, based on pre-2010 Office internal assemblies.There are already two pre-Alpha Builds of Office 15 available internally in Redmond, MSO_v15_1, MSO_v15_2.

Wzor claims to already be in possession of one of the Builds, but a member of the site is noting that users should not expect a leak to happen.

In fact, Wzor only provided a couple of screenshots of Office 15 pre-Alpha, and insisted that this is all that the public is going to get at this point in time.

However, it does appear that even in this extremely early Builds of Office 15, Microsoft has packaged a few new features.

"Microsoft Limestone Integration Application" also referred to as Microsoft Lime is a new element of application development which will be featured in the next version of Office productivity suite, according to Wzor.

In addition, the Redmond company appears to have integrated a KMS activator into Office 15, in an effort to make it simpler for volume customers to bulk active their copies of the productivity suite purchased under volume licenses.

According to Wzor, Office 15 is planned for delivery in early 2014. Of course, in this context, the next major version of Office is bound to be released under the Office 2014 moniker.

Office Home and Business 2010 RTM Build 14.0.4760.1000 is available for download here.

Office Home and Student 2010 RTM Build 14.0.4760.1000 is available for download here.

Office Professional 2010 RTM Build 14.0.4760.1000 is available for download here.

Microsoft Office 15 Milestone 2 Build 15.0.2703.1000 ISO DVD

What started out as a small leak for Office 15 has turned into a full blown review. Office 15 is the next version of the popular Office suite that many businesses and consumers use everyday.

Microsoft Office 15 Milestone 2 Build 15.0.2703.1000 ISO DVD
We has gotten its hands on a copy of Office 15 and has taken a long look at what the platform has to offer so far. Despite being an early build, the reviewer states that it is rather impressive; the build number for this leak is 15.0.2703.1000.

While there is not a drastic difference in appearance, there are small updates that the reviewer points out. Things such as dynamic interfaces, small updates to align more with the Metro stlye, and that it is being built on .NET Framework 4. The reviewer also likes the updates to Outlook and notes that there are new transitions in PowerPoint as well.

Finally the reviewer points out that the product is a good start but is far away from completion. There are still consistency gaps with application transitions and occasional crashes; all which you would expect to find in an early build such as this one.

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Office 15 Ready Around December 2012

The next major iteration of the Office productivity suite will be finalized and available for purchase by the end of 2012, Microsoft confirmed. 
It appears that the Redmond company is working to have Office 15, the codename under which Office 2010’s successor is being developed, hit commercial availability no later than December 2012.Kurt DelBene, president of Microsoft's Business division confirmed this information to Seattle Times. "We're typically in a 2 1/2 year cycle," DelBene was quoted saying.

According to the report, Microsoft's Business division boss was talking about the general availability deadline of Office 15, and not about the milestone synonymous with the product’s finalization.

 With GA set for December 2012, or earlier, this means that Office 15 will be wrapped up much sooner next year.

The release to manufacturing (RTM) date for Office 15 was not disclosed, but as tradition goes, it should be a few months ahead of the product hitting store shelves.

Office 15 is currently under development, but has yet to even reach the Beta stage. Leaked bits of pre-Beta testing releases have made their way into the wild, but despite some improvements, it’s still very hard to get a full sense of the evolution from Office 2010 to Office 15.

The software giant has also yet to confirm the official moniker for the next major version of Office. Since it will be released by the end of the coming year, the company is most likely to brand Office 15 as Office 2012, although Office 2013 could also be a valid option.

DelBene explained that it took three years to deliver Office 2010 counting from the office 2007 release because of in excess of 60,000 pages of antitrust documentation that Microsoft had to submit to the European Commission.

What's Microsoft's new mystery application?

There are reports that a new early build of Microsoft’s Office 15 have escaped the Redmond hills. More interesting than the mere existence of these pre-alpha build, however, is another mention of a new application that will become part of Microsoft’s next-generation Office suite.

Despite the fact Microsoft only began shipping Office 14 (a k a, Office 2010) a couple of months ago, an August 20 Softpedia report (via the Russian website Wzor) claims there’s a new Office 15 build floating around.

Softpedia’s report also includes something near and dear to this Microsoft watcher’s heart: a new codename. “Microsoft Limestone Integration Application” (also known as “Microsoft Lime”) is a new application development element that will be part of Office 15, according to information that allegedly is part of the newly leaked build. (Update: One of my contacts says Lime is just a user-interface utility for Office, and probably not considered a new application in and of itself. Update 2: Microsoft blogger Rafael Rivera agrees and shares a bit more on Lime/Limestone….Nonetheless, it still sounds like there is a new Office 15 app coming. Read on….)

Stephen Chapman noted on his Microsoft Kitchen site, back in early June this year, that there were indications Microsoft was planning to add a new application to its coming Office suite. Chapman connected the dots and discovered a mention of “a major new feature” coming to Office 15 via a LinkedIn profile of a former Microsoft intern. That intern worked on the Excel team.

That’s not a whole lot to go on, but it’s got me thinking Limestone/Limethe new mystery Office 15 application could involve integrating Excel with another technology. Could it be some kind of business-intelligence-related app? Something to do with charting/data visualization? Hmmm.

Robert McLaws, a Microsoft consultant and former Windows blogger, offered a possible (and convincing, in my opinion) guess as to what the new mystery feature might be: “I’d say that the new app is most likely the extension of the co-authoring features of Office Web Apps into a shared desktop runtime. Think about it… why were Groove’s best features missing from the last release? Likely because they were being re-architected into an Azure-based next-gen real-time collaboration platform.”  (McLaws emphasized this is just his own speculation and not based on anything from Microsoft about its Office 15 plans.)

One last point: According to Softpedia/Wzor, Office 15 is planned for delivery in early 2014. I’m skeptical of that date; I’d say 2012 or 2013 is more likely, given the Office team’s typcial two- to three-year development/release schedule (and that group’s tendency to under-promise/over-deliver so as to ship “early,” rather than late).

Microsoft, unsurprisingly, isn’t commenting on anything related to Office 15. “Wave 15 is currently under development, but we have nothing further to share at this time,”

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