OBIEE 11g: Desupport of Microsoft Office 2003 with Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Dashboards and Publisher OBIEE 11g (Doc ID 1558215.1)

Statement of Direction for support of Microsoft Office 2003 with Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Dashboards and Publisher

In order to provide the best possible combination of functionality and supportability, Oracle is announcing de-support of Office 2003 products and file formats. This is consistent with Oracle's Third Party Vendor-Specific Support Terms in Oracle Software Technical Support Policies and Microsoft's stated support lifecycle for Office 2003:

• http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/default.aspx?LN=en-us&x=13&y=10&p1=2488
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd873564(v=office.12).aspx

The benefits of moving to the Office XML file formats are outlined via the following Microsoft website:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338205(v=office.12).aspx

Over the past several releases, Oracle Business Intelligence has supported Office 2007, Office 2010 and the newer Office XML file formats (*.xlsx, pptx, *.docx) . Customers are strongly encouraged to use the Office XML formats and the Microsoft Office versions that support those formats.
Starting with Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.9, Oracle will begin removing functionality that supports Office 2003 products and file formats. The following sections describe details for each product and component.

For full details, please see the attached Statement of Direction

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