Microsoft has quietly added a high-end retail edition of Office 2007 to the suite’s stable, the company confirmed Thursday.
The new Office Ultimate — the name identical to Vista’s Ultimate edition — will be priced at $679 in retail channels, and will include all the applications scheduled to ship within Office Enterprise 2007, the top-end corporation version to be available only to volume license customers.
Ultimate will include core applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, but will also offer Access, Publisher, InfoPath, Groove, OneNote, and integrated functions such as content management, electronic forms, and rights management. All of those pieces are also in the Enterprise bundle.
Read more on the InformationWeek site.

