Office Web Components are being discontinued

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

• A server-side Excel calculation engine
• Greater parity with Excel when worksheets are delivered over the Web
• The ability to enable spreadsheets to be more scalable and stable when loaded onto a server
• Improved security
• The ability to perform more detailed analysis to improve overall business intelligence.

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:

• A Server-side Excel calculation engine
• The ability to enable browser-based worksheet viewing and interactivity
• Web service access to the spreadsheet calculation engine in Excel.*

*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.

For additional information on Excel Services please see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms546696.aspx or this series of Excel blog posts.


很可惜我们已经看不到OWC12了,虽然office2007已经发布了许久,虽然我们对于Excel Services还不是很熟悉

另外针对于目前版本的OWC各版本:



详细信息请参见http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2006/07/17/668544.aspx
Office Web Components “Roadmap”