Office 和 Windows总是成双成对地摆在货架上，Windows 7最近消息多多，而跳过了厄运13号的Office 14也有新消息，开发人员透露，Office 14的第一个Beta版本将在明年上半年推出，而正式版本可能要等一年，也就是2009年上半年推出。Office 14将有一些什么改进？一起来看一下——
* Enable users to perform more complex tasks more easily (more Ribbon user interfaces for more Office apps， would be my guess as what this means)
* Provide more self- and community-based help options
* Deliver improved search relevancy
* Include tighter integration of unified communications， unified identity， and unified policy/compliance/support across all apps and for all devices
* Focus on "flexible storage solutions for digital asset management"
* "Bring BI (business intelligence) to the business process itself， as opposed to having it as an isolated as-needed activity"
* More tightly integrate declarative programming and improved Business Data Catalogue capabilities into the core Office development platform
* Provide tools to make global deployments easier， with new "federated， offline and virtualized models"
* Improve SharePoint's offline capabilities.