How much SAN storage are you using to store Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and Powerpoint presentations? For most of our customers, the number one consumer of storage space on Storage Area Networks is Office documentation. That’s right: .DOC’s, .XLS’s, .PPT’s, .MDBs, and .PST’s.
Did you know that you can reduce the storage consumed by Office documents on your file shares by 70% using Office 2007? With the cost of SAN storage these days, how’s that for being an immediate reason to move to Office 2007? Here’s some fast facts about why you’ll like the new Office files format.
- Office 2007 files are very easy to parse and search through. They’re essentially ZIP files with images & XML text binding everything together in a folder hierarchy.
- Office 2007 will be fully compatible with Office 2003’s existing file format and will be able to write the old Office 2003. Office 2003 users will be able to download an add-in that will allow them to directly read & write the Office 2007 files format.
- Office 2007’s file format can be quickly be converted to .XPS format which will be natively processed by all the major printer manufacturers without
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