Microsoft Xdocs renamed to InfoPath

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983823.html' target='_blank'>http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983823.html</a><br /><br /></div>"Microsoft on Monday plans to unveil more details on XDocs, its controversial electronic forms software.<br /><br />The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be called InfoPath.<br /><br />Last year, Microsoft unveiled XDocs as a planned addition to Office 11, the forthcoming update to the company's market-dominating, cash-cow productivity suite. Office 11 will rely heavily on Extensible Markup Language (XML), the lingua franca of Web services, to record and display data more flexibly."<br /><br />More information is now available from the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/infopath/default.asp">Microsoft site</a>. Unfortunately, they seem to be delaying the Pocket PC implementations, according to <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21128-1.html">this article</a>. Let's hope that gets rectified soon.

[Gremmie]

Err...I liked the name XDocs. It had the iName feel but with a bit of uniqueness.

[R K]

Err...I liked the name XDocs. It had the iName feel but with a bit of uniqueness.

Maybe they didn't want to interfere with XBox?

[David McNamee]

Err...I liked the name XDocs. It had the iName feel but with a bit of uniqueness.

The "XDocs" name invokes memories of ActiveX Documents. That is something that most IT shops would rather forget as soon as possible.

[Jonathan1]

DEATH to XDocs.......Acrobat forever! :twisted:

[seanturner]

DEATH to XDocs.......Acrobat forever! :twisted:

XDocs isn't really an Acrobat killer though. It's more of a data entry solution. (Which I am really anxious to try as a point of sale solution).

Sign up for hte Office 11 Beta 2 CPP though... (can't say any more cause of an nda).

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