“Microsoft Corp. will delay the release of Office 2008 for Apple Inc.’s Macintosh computers until the middle of January 2008, in order to fix lingering bugs in the software,” Jessica Mintz reports for The Associated Press.
Mintz reports, “The software maker previously said the new suite, which is to include Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the Entourage e-mail program, would go on sale sometime in the second half of 2007.”
“‘It really is just a quality issue across the board,’ Craig Eisler, general manager of Microsoft’s Macintosh business unit, said in an interview Wednesday,” Mintz reports.
Full article here.
“It really is just a quality issue across the board.” You can say that again, Craig. For the whole company.
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Mac users should not buy Microsoft software (or hardware) – May 16, 2003
That’s OK. I’d rather wait and have good software than buggy stuff.
I’M SHOCKED ! ! !
Stupid Micro$haft.
This really doesn’t surprise me.
MW: Truth
I’m betting 3rd Q ’08 now.
Hopefully the new iWork (if IT ever comes out) will begin to make Office a bit less needed on OS X. The key word there is “hopefully” though.
The nails in the coffin just keep adding up, don’t they?
Patient User,
If you’d “rather wait and have good software than buggy stuff” from Microsoft, then you are very aptly-named.
Enjoy infinity.
Four years in development and still no resources for adding Visual Basic to Excel.
MS is truly a pathetic excuse for a software development company.
But since they are also trying to dominate advertising, gaming, peripherals, entertainment, coffee tables, etc., it’s no surprise.
Not to defend Microsoft, but there are more reasons for the delay than stated in MDN’s report or the Chronicle’s news piece. See http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/08/01/msftoffice/index.php
It just isn’t bloated enough yet.
Hmm….seems to me that several years ago Steve told everyone to go ahead and switch to Xcode for their apps didn’t he. Seems that some people didn’t listen.
I just use NeoOffice: neooffice.org.
Who needs Micro$h’t?
so when they signed up for 5 more years of mac dev, they meant five more years developing this release lol
They can’t build quality on time and on schedule? What’s wrong Microsoft?
To be fair, Leopard was delayed so I could forgive some delay if they wanted to ensure it worked on that straight from release, but I doubt that’s the case. Granted it’s a complex app, but Apple are making a whole OS, porting to intel and iPhone in seemingly less time.
I know this is no excuse, and the Mac team are victims of the M$ culture, but I read something about the Mac Office team a couple of years ago.
They are (supposedly) very pro-Apple, are in a completely separate area from everyone else, and did all their programming on (at the time) PowerMacs. I got the impression they were somewhat shunned by the Dozers there.
If any M$ employees deserve at least a little slack from us, it’s them.
Why Jobs is not focusing on the biggest M$ killer, a nice office suite for Mac?
Typical Microshaft. Now Office will be almost a year behind CS3…and we thought Adobe were dragging their feet!
This has no impact on me. I have Office 2004, but I don’t have any plans to ever purchase Office 2008. I moved on from Microsoft’s “quality issues” long ago…
I think we should support M$ Mac BU more, as most of those people are Mac Users, of course, and they probably working under conditions where they don’t get get the support they need from executive management. Yet despite that, it i generally excepted they do a better job than there much better funded and resourced big brothers.
I was told from a developer friend of mine who’s done a lot of work for M$ here in Aus, and who conspicuousely uses a PBook, that the reason that they had to drop VB support was a simple pragmatic one – lack of mac developers available they could contrac who could do it.
Peace
I have refused to install any Ms software on my new mac pro, have been getting by just fine and dandy with Pages and Keynote
and just using google docs for the odd spreadsheet
Screw em
Sory abowt te tipos
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Neo office for me. Screw M$
Agree with sentiment, but not pragmatic for some of us. Many docs I get from clients, or have to develop for clients, simply get screwed up unless I use Office. Which company’s fault that is I am not sure, but I can guess.
Fortunately, Mac Office has come along way, and since the 2004 release will usually suffice.
Cheers
Funny how you fscktards can bash MS delays but suck Steve Jobs’ cock for apple delats.