“Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it would delay the release of its Office business software suite, citing ‘product performance’ issues,” Allison Linn reports for The Associated Press.
“In a statement released by the company’s Waggener Edstrom public relations firm, Microsoft said it would now release the product to big business customers by the end of the year, instead of in October as planned,” Linn reports.
“Consumers and other business users are now scheduled to get the product in early 2007. Microsoft had previously said it would be broadly available in January, to coincide with the delayed release of Microsoft’s Windows Vista computer operating system,” Linn reports.
Full article here.
“It was not immediately clear how the Office delay would impact Microsoft’s Vista plans or a potential joint product launch. Many outsiders have already said they expect the Windows update to also be delayed beyond January, but Microsoft has yet to acknowledge a further delay,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The amount of surprise cannot be understated.
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Oh, and Static, kudos for being first to misspell lose for loose. I was getting so sick of seeing the other mistake. Refreshing!
I need a proof reader, I’m just a insane artist.
I am livin’ on Channel Z
Getting nothing but static, getting nothing but static
Static in my attic from Channel Z
Getting nothing but static, getting nothing but static.
Static filling my attic from Channel Z
MDW: “Channel Z” (hehehehe)
“Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said ho, ho
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go, and dont you eat that yellow ‘Book
Watch out where the huskies go, and dont you eat that yellow ‘Book”
Time to change the diapers?
Bewitching Utterance: major as in Heller’s character
Rock Lobster, Down Down.
It’s a Rock,
It’s a Rock
It’s a ROCK LOBSTER!!!
— B-52’s
I am livin’ on Channel Z
Getting nothing but static, getting nothing but static
Static in my attic from Channel Z
MDW: sort “Can you sort the static in my attic from Channel Z?”
“Nobody know what I’m talkin’ about.
I’ve got my own life to live
I’m the one that’s going to have to die
when it’s time for me to die.
So let me live my life,
the way I want to
Yeah.
Sing on Brother, play on drummer.” – JMH
Word: need, so true.
Please enter the “MDN Magic Word” you see in the image below:
That super cool thing: hair. as in “I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!”
“It was not immediately clear how the Office delay would impact Microsoft’s Vista plans or a potential joint product launch. Many outsiders have already said they expect the Windows update to also be delayed beyond January, but Microsoft has yet to acknowledge a further delay,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
Note that Vista appears to be referred to as an update
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Many outsiders have already said they expect the Windows update to also be delayed beyond January, but Microsoft has yet to acknowledge a further delay,
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The best part of the CNET article…that they refer to Vista as a “Windows update” is SO telling.
It really will be “just” an update, whereas Leopard will be a proper upgrade.
update[b/] : make (something) more modern or up to date
upgrade : raise (something) to a higher standard, in particular improve it by adding or replacing components (features)
Now now
lest we be too critical of Micros**t we should remember something called OS8 – Copland
It was to be the ‘end all’ of operating systems and it kept being delayed and descoped.
If Micros**t were really smart at copying Apple, they would simply ditch Windows they way Apple ditched OS9.
But as Windows xp is evidence – MS is not very good at copying Apple – try though they may
Wings2sky
Copland, you mean the attempts made during the years without SJ? Is there any wonder?
Thankfully Apple survived the “Sugar water man” et al, the fools who almost took Apple from corp to corpse.
i went to bed too early last night!
it was (mdn) past my bedtime…
My poo hasn’t changed… !