Ahead of the release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Corporation has frequently referred to what it calls the "new world of work"—a business environment and economy characterized by mobility; a worldwide network of customers, partners, and suppliers; new compliance and regulatory requirements; and a need for broad visibility into business processes and the information that supports and governs them. Together, factors such as these drive the need for organizations to integrate business applications, documents, and workflows and transform the content of documents into business information they can act on. These factors make plain the essential link between knowledge workers, business information, business processes, and software.Ahead of the release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Corporation has frequently referred to what it calls the "new world of work"—a business environment and economy characterized by mobility; a worldwide network of customers, partners, and suppliers; new compliance and regulatory requirements; and a need for broad visibility into business processes and the information that supports and governs them. Together, factors such as these drive the need for organizations to integrate business applications, documents, and workflows and transform the content of documents into business information they can act on. These factors make plain the essential link between knowledge workers, business information, business processes, and software.