We've already seen that Office 14 will implement Volume Activation 2.0, greatly improve security without hendering productivity. "Office 14 is the next wave in business productivity platforms designed to deliver business data and to drive business processes directly from the Office desktop. The new LOBi (Line of Business Infrastructure) stores and manages data connections between Office client applications, SharePoint Server and line-of-business systems to have a single path to and from business applications, streamlining access management, funneling the appropriate information to the right people, and unburdening end users by surfacing that information in tools they already know how to use."

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