Microsoft Xdocs renamed to InfoPath

[Janak Parekh]

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983823.html

"Microsoft on Monday plans to unveil more details on XDocs, its controversial electronic forms software.

The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be called InfoPath.

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."

More information is now available from the Microsoft site. Unfortunately, they seem to be delaying the Pocket PC implementations, according to this article. Let's hope that gets rectified soon.

[Janak Parekh]

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983823.html

"Microsoft on Monday plans to unveil more details on XDocs, its controversial electronic forms software.

The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be called InfoPath.

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."

More information is now available from the Microsoft site. Unfortunately, they seem to be delaying the Pocket PC implementations, according to this article. 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]

Originally Posted by Gremmie

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]

Originally Posted by Gremmie

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]

Originally Posted by Jonathan1

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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