Yesterday Microsoft announced its new Office System called Microsoft Office System 2007. Besides the packaging you already know - Professional, Standard etc ... Microsoft Office is not a solely packaged product anymore.

Started with Office 2003 and SharePoint 2003, Office System 2007 delivers not only a new line of client products but also introduces new Server products and Live Services as well. Let me walk through new items:

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 – A replacement for Office Student & Teacher Edition 2003. It is time to bring the Office « Suite » Home at a sweet priceJ. In the 2007 release, Microsoft Office Outlook has been replaced by Microsoft Office OneNote.

Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 - The ultimate suite which includes all Microsoft Office Suite client Products but also powerful tools for managing and analyzing data, integrating content management and workflow, protecting documents with rights management and integrating instant messaging and application sharing. This will be possible using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Microsoft Office Groove 2007 - A peer-to-peer and workspace collaboration tool.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - A powerful tool to deliver compelling and attractive SharePoint sites and quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools on the SharePoint platform.

Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 - provide a scalable, security-enhanced, standards-based solution that centralizes control and management of electronic forms by allowing customers to use a common Web browser to interact with information. It will help streamline organizations’ forms-driven business processes with existing systems

Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 - provide IT organizations with enterprise-class server software and tools to deploy, manage and integrate Office Groove 2007 across the enterprise.

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 - will be a top-down portfolio management governance solution. The solution has been designed to help ensure that organizations gain visibility, insight and control over their project, program and application portfolios.

So be prepared for the new Server, Client and Service product lines and do forget to visit the Microsoft Office System 2007 Packaging where you will find much more information and also the Pricing list and much more here.