Infrastructure Technologies

Future Technologies

This page describes the technologies that will be implemented in the next few years. Please use the links below to jump to particular topics.


Next major version of Office.

    Escape Comment (last update 12/11): Impact unknown. Usually minor tweaks are required on our end to support new versions of Office. We already have the infrastructure built in to detect the version of Office on the PC, and use the correct interface.

    User Group Comment: none yet

    Relevant webpages: none yet

Microsoft Windows 8

This is the next major version of Windows. It is still in the beta phase. Release Date: Tentative late 2012.

    Escape Comment (last update 12/11): Given that our client is written in Microsoft .Net, as is a lot of Microsoft software, new Windows versions generally don’t cause many issues. Some minor tweaks have been required in the past.

    User Group Comment: none yet

    Relevant webpages: none yet



Microsoft Server 8




Release Date: First half of 2012.

    Escape Comment (last update 12/11): Updates to SQL Server generally do not cause problems for any of our SQL usage. But there are version specific enhancements that we cannot take advantage of until all customers have migrated.

    User Group Comment: none yet

    Relevant webpages: