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Microsoft seeks name for Office Web Applications

Microsoft has launched a survey of potential customers to find a brand name for its planned Web-based office applications. As LiveSide.net reports, terms such as Microsoft Ensemble, Optro Microsoft, Microsoft ArcLight, offsite Microsoft, or Microsoft Equipt to choose from.

Directed by a market research company commissioned by Microsoft, a survey of IT professionals is evident and developers. It also provides clues as to how the software provider to online versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote will be positioned in the market. So will the companies know what the name describes the best suggestions an offer that is in direct competition with Google Apps, Google’s hosted Web applications for corporate customers.

According to the survey, the Office Web applications will also include a feature to synchronize e-mails, contacts and calendar entries from Outlook with desktop applications and mobile devices running Windows Mobile, BlackBerry OS and iPhone OS. In addition, they should offer the opportunity to save documents over the Internet and communicate with other users. A built-in Outlook, instant messaging application for businesses is also planned.

In July, Microsoft plans to deploy a trial version of Office 2010 in a technical preview. The Web-based version of Office will not be a part of the pre-release version. The technical preview follows the course of the year, a public beta version. The release of the final version of Office 2010 is scheduled for the first half of next year.

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