“Fresh on the heels of a delay in broad availability of Windows Vista, Microsoft confirmed late Thursday that it is also pushing the mainstream launch of Office 2007 to next year. As with Vista, Microsoft hopes to finish the code for Office 2007 this year. The company said that work will be completed by October, when it will make Office 2007 available to business customers that have signed up for Microsoft’s volume licensing program,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News. “And, again like Vista, Microsoft plans to ship retail and original equipment manufacturer versions of the product in January. ‘We believe this will provide an easier experience for consumers and retailers alike,’ a Microsoft representative said in an e-mail to CNET News.com.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MikeR” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: If people really want an easier experience, they’ll get a Mac next time instead.
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They should call it Office 2014, just to be safe…
An easier experience? Perhaps, but most people won’t be happy about having this “carrot” dangled in front of them right on the heels of the expensive holiday season.
Good luck with that.
Thanks Microsoft Daily News!
When you have nothing to report w. Apple, just trash everyone else.
Class act, this place is.
Office is for losers too..
OfficeMac is for traitors…
Watch out for that pink slip pussies!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Hey reality check… the Micro$uck community trashes Apple just as much Ye High and Might One.
Why waste your precious time here then, Reality check. Hop on over to Enderles’ place, or maybe disney.com is more suited to your needs.
Microsoft news is sometimes Apple news.
Hey, stop bashing Office
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Without Excel and Office Apple would have more or less been history since long ago. As much as we may hate to acknowledge it it, that’s the truth.
We all know that the OS X Intel transition is not complete until Office is running native either. Support the Microsoft Mac Business Unit.
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The simple (and sarcastic) answer is that they are all working on (the always on schedule) Vista. You can bet that Office 2007 makes use of Vista OS code. Since Vista must be rewritten, so must Office 2007.
Reality Check…
Keeping an eye on the competition is most certainly relevent to the Mac community.
I read and interesting article at WORK yesterday – it was a proposal to fine Microsoft for releasing “Vaporware” announcements because it stagnated the market as people wait for Microsoft’s “solution” which comes two years later with half the promissed features.
Now I don’t think this is a good idea actually – what I do think is that consumers will eventually start voting with their wallets if it really makes them upset.
For the home user, there is no reason to have a Windows box.
Tatie
You are so right. MS Office for the Mac is the most important biz app for the Mac.
Randall Felker hit me at lunchtime.
So which will happen first?
1) The next Windows version of Office
2) The Universal Binary Office for Mac
Place your bets folks!
LOL – and so the fall of Microsoft continues…
RIP M$.
Whether it’s now or months from now, Vista, Word, and all the rest of the hated Microsoft is the future.
Apple is all about head bangers, reefers, and losers silhouetted on billboards downloading endless tunes…
“MacDailyNews Take: If people really want an easier experience, they’ll get a Mac next time instead.”
What does news that Office 2007 will be delayed have ANYTHING to do with which OS you choose?
Last time I checked, MS makes versions of Office for BOTH OS’s.
A delay in Office 2007 affects us all, whether we be PC or Mac users.
Notice how MDN (“news”…hahhaha) MUST spin EVERY story as PR for reasons why a switch to Apple will ensure you an “easier experience?”
MDN, you are the Paul Thurrott of the Mac Fan Boy universe (a joke).
I know that as a business customer I can’t wait to be first in line to receive these fine new MicroShaft products….NOT
MS Office is the only app that screws up on my Mac.
About half the time when I start WORD it locks up or quits (on a dual G4 1Ghz running 10.3.9)
Mmm mmm, that’s quality software…. NOT
Want to know how important Microsoft Office is to Apple’s success?
Go and ask any Apple Store, Best Buy, CompUSA etc. Store Employee what the TOP 5 questions he/she hears from potential Apple Computer purchasers on a daily basis. I can guaranty you that “Does this computer run MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc” is one of those frequently asked questions. What do you think that potential customer will say when/IF the employee responds: “NO, but it runs this wonderful package called iWork thats similar to MS Office….Hello?” (Customer walking out of store/walking to PC computer dept.)
MS Office is and has been essential to Apple’s success. No Office? No Customers. Period.
Want proof? http://www.apple.com/switch/reasons/reason09.html
So keep bashing the company that makes the software you use on a DAILY basis, whether it be PC or Mac.
Oh, sorry. I thought I’d hacked into the school complaint file system.
now this is innovation!!!
mw “minute” as in how many minutes will it be before the next vaporware announcement from microsoft?
Oh, and by the way– Macs can’t be hacked and so they suck.
Yours truly,
Timmy Nagel
Phuc Su Bhien Elementary School
Dover, Delaware
Im not one of these people crying and whining about Apple’s advertising strategy, and begging for an informercial packed into a 30 seconds spot, but considering this delay perhaps a simple ad would be considered.
A Mac, running Word and Excel… camera pans back slowly, the words “What are you waiting for?” and then fade to the Apple logo.
ridiculous,
Just because the rest of the world is addicted to MS Office doesn’t mean they will never kick the habit. Apple must appeal to the masses in the meantime with the availability of MS Office for Mac.
HOWEVER,
in general, bad news for Microsoft is good news for Apple, thus in a twisted, warped kind of way, some M$ news does belong right here in MDN.
Hey, stop bashing Office
Without Excel and Office Apple would have more or less been history since long ago. As much as we may hate to acknowledge it it, that’s the truth.
We all know that the OS X Intel transition is not complete until Office is running native either. Support the Microsoft Mac Business Unit.
Bullshit.
If Office disappeared from every Macintosh hard disk right now, people would user other apps to deal with the situation. Don’t tell me that one cannot use a Mac system without that crap because this is simply not true.
Presentation: Keynote
Word processing: Pages, Nisus, Mellel, Mariner
Spreadsheet: OpenOfffice, NeoOffice
Database: FileMaker, 4D, Mysql, etc.
We don’t need Office and their lousy file formats. Screw that.