“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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MacSmiley,
It’s not the “rest of the world” (ie. everyone but us Mac users) thats “addicted” to MS Office, EVERYONE, including the vast majority of Mac users willfully choose MS Office over their inferior counterparts.
“bad news for Microsoft is [NOT] good news for Apple” when it comes to software packages. The more time it takes to release Office 2007, the more time it will be until a Universal Office 2004 edition. You think thats high on MS’s priority list? You want to wait another year or more for a Universal version? You think Apple corporate is dancing around happy as could be that they must continue to tell potential switchers (and current owners) that MS’s product offering for Mac is not only out of date, BUT does not even run natively?? Given how Apple knows how influential an up-to-date MS Office product is on customer’s perceptions, this is not good news for Apple corp. or their customers.
Get a lesson in some basic logic, idiot.
“If Office disappeared from every Macintosh hard disk right now, people would user other apps to deal with the situation.”
That’s possibly the least thought out comment on this site I’ve seen.
Apple cares far less about what its own current Mac fanboy owners than it does about NEW, potential windows switchers that could embrance the Apple experience. What experience would that be when a potential customer is told that they must download some no-name (in their eyes) open source package with half-ass compatability to MS Office because Microsoft (the biggest name in computers in THEIR eyes) no longer makes software for Mac. What psychological effect do you think that will have on the customer looking at at big pruchase item?
MS Office is essential to Apple’s success and anybody who thinks otherwise is diluding themselves.
My Take: My God, can anyone or anything be more narrow minded, predictable, boring and incredibly repetitive than MDN and it’s legions of Mac-lovers.
The old, familiar refrain: “You should buy a Mac because PC’s suck” just shouldn’t be kicked anymore. It can’t get anymore lame than it already is. Give it a frickin’ break and come up with something new and interesting to say.
slike– How about this?
You are a blistering, snot-filled, assclown buttmunch with delusions of superiority.
Microsoft is king, the war is over.
I’m just glad I don’t have to ever deal with Windoze up-close and personal.
I read a recent interview with Steve Ballmer, he was asked about a add campaign for Office that had people with dinosaur heads. I went to the Microsoft site to see for my self. wow…. what a cluster F**k …… and to top it all off the add was pushing Office 2003 … 2003?…. WTF
My God, it would be less humiliating to just change the name on the box to Office 2006.
I have an idea. Why doesn’t Microsoft spin off its Macintosh unit, since they obviously don’t give a f*ck about them any way. Then Apple would have a decent Office suite offering for the Mac community.
For some reason — and it could be the deal with Bill Gates that Jobs made to keep Apple alive — Apple has not created an Exchange server killer to bundle with their XServes or even as a stand alone app for OS X Server users. What the hell are you waiting for Apple? Deal the final blow and kill Exchange and corporate America will have a reason to buy XServes and desktop Macs for their users.
The next head of Windows is the guy who was in charge of Office. The new guy is supposed to be a hard charging, no nonsense guy. The day after it was announced that he was coming to Windows Platforms to kick ass, they announced that Office 12 will also be late.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Vista is going to kill MS.
Office is MS’s most important cash cow. Not a good sign that Vista’s effect is paralyzing rest of the company.
“We believe this will provide an easier experience for consumers and retailers alike”
LOL. MS, Vista is officially lost when even you know that delays (and a MIA product) are best for everyone.
OpenOffice.ORG
repeat the above out loud 3 times, install it and chuck Mikro$uck Oriface to scrap heap of history where it belongs.
Sure it was needed before, thanks, bah-bye!
Oh yeah, OpenOffice is free and works great with all native Mikro$uck Orafice formats.
MW=dead
hahaha
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.
Ok, you can open all of these types of files with applications other than Microsoft ones, but compatibility sucks – formatting can get screwed up etc. If someone emails you a Word file you need to be able to open it up without having to then proceed to re-arrange the document to make it look the way you think it should!
Office for Mac is a stable and feature rich package that I certainly couldn’t bear to be without (even just for compatibility with the 90 something percent of the computer world that are PC users!)
From: truth hurts
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…
head bangers? reefers? man… you’re so laughably stupid and out of date it hurts!!
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“Vista is going to kill MS.”
we could only hope.
Openoffice.org (and Neooffice) are seriously lame products. Very reminiscent of Microsoft Office from about 10 years ago. They may get the job done, but they’re hardly the smooth user experience that Mac users crave. Pages and Keynote are pretty and slick, but seriously lacking in functionality. There is no viable alternative to MS Office on the Mac. If you’d get your collective heads out of Steve Job’s arse then you might actually realise the Office:mac is actually a very well written and stable office suite.
Ok, you can open all of these types of files with applications other than Microsoft ones, but compatibility sucks – formatting can get screwed up etc. If someone emails you a Word file you need to be able to open it up without having to then proceed to re-arrange the document to make it look the way you think it should!
Granted. But the way some people here put it, it seems that you won’t be able to do any work at all if you do not have Office Mac installed on your Apple system. That’s simply not true.
I’m sorry if some folks here have become so attached to it that they can’t even imagine life without some MS soft…
There will always be a MS file full of macros and stuff that won’t translate as it should and NeoOffice is sure slow, but to think we are dependent on Office and MS is unreal.
You can still use Office Mac for the next 3-5 years. In the meantime, iWork will become AppleWorks for OS X on anabolics and NeoOffice and OpenOffice will evolve too.
Besides, how many Word files that complicated to open in other apps do you get? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands?
This applies to a minority of a minority (Mac heavy users who work with hundreds of MS files).
90% of the time TextEdit or Nisus get it right on my machine. If it screws it too much, I ask for a rtf version.
Repeat after me: we are not dependent on MS, we left their camp long ago when we chose the other operating system…
I think we should be applauding Microsoft for delaying their products until they get them right. This marks a major change of policy. The real question is how on earth can a company with the resources of a Microsoft (i.e. money, personnel, market presence, etc.) be so inept and incapable of getting their products out the door? If I were on the board of directors at Microsoft it would seem clear there needs to be some major leadership changes at the company.
Gosh do people still use Office on their Macs? What a concept.
Apple needs to release its own complete Mac version of Office for those of us who are obligated to work in the PC world. Office for the Mac has been a useful product, but I keep waiting for Apple to release its own Office-compatible spreadsheet program as well as an enhanced version of Pages. To develop new business or cultivate established business it is important to share files as easily and as seamlessly as possible. This is pure pragmatism.