Updates to OWC will be delivered through service packs and hotfixes, and the GUIDs for all versions of OWC will remain the same. This means that important bugs and security issues will continue to be addressed. *Note that this means that Excel Services has been designed to scale and perform on a server and it is not merely an Excel spreadsheet stored on a server.įor additional information on Excel Services please see or this series of Excel blog posts.Īlthough OWC is being discontinued it will continue to be supported per the Microsoft Product Life Cycle. Web service access to the spreadsheet calculation engine in Excel.*.The ability to enable browser-based worksheet viewing and interactivity.In order to address these customer challenges the Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will include a technology called Excel Services that includes: The ability to perform more detailed analysis to improve overall business intelligence.The ability to enable spreadsheets to be more scalable and stable when loaded onto a server.Greater parity with Excel when worksheets are delivered over the Web.

The Office Web Components are being discontinued because Microsoft needed a more flexible technology to help customers address the following challenges they faced with OWC Though they will not be updated, the components will ship with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. Additionally, the ability to author OWC-based web pages is also being removed from Microsoft Office 2007 applications such as Microsoft Office ExcelÂ® 2007 and Microsoft Office Access 2007, and OWC will not ship with Microsoft Office SharePointÂ® Designer 2007, which is partially based on Microsoft Office FrontPageÂ® 2003. The version of OWC that shipped with the 2003 release of Microsoft Office will be the last revision to this technology. Microsoft has shipped different versions of OWC in the last three releases of MicrosoftÂ® Office, including Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2000, however, the Office Web Components will not ship with the 2007 Microsoft Office system. The Office Web Components (OWC) are a set of ActiveXÂ® controls that provide four principal components: Spreadsheet, Chart, PivotTableÂ®, and Data Source Control (DSC). Here you go:Īs some of you have recently noticed, the Office Web Components are no longer installed when installing Microsoft Office 2007. Today, I wanted to post the official âroadmapâ from the Office Web Components team. Since I have been writing this blog, I have periodically been asked âwhatâs up with the Office Web Componentsâ.

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