Seattle Occasions Reporter Brier Dudley has an fascinating follow-up to my blog post yesterday around the forthcoming Microsoft kitchen customer.(And just for the document,
Office Standard 2010, from what I can tell, the kitchen customer isn;t a special version of Vista. It;s additional of the software program layer that can “extend” Windows. Think of it being much more like the Origami Experience pack for Ultra-Mobile PCs.)Dudley says Microsoft had a 50-person team working on a kitchen PC/services product that was code-named “Ohana,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010,” but that project had fizzled.Ah,
Office 2007 Serial! So that;s what Ohana is/was. I wrote about Ohana back in December 2006 and called it some kind of Family Center project/product.I hear the kitchen customer project is alive and well. Perhaps it was moved to a different group or team,
Windows 7 64 Bit, or morphed from a new Windows SKU into an add-on software program layer? The way I;m hearing about it,
Office Professional Plus, it definitely would fit in well with Microsoft;s overall “software+services” mandate.Anyone else know extra about the past or future of Ohana and/or Microsoft;s Kitchen customer?