“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.
Related article:
Mac users should not buy Microsoft software (or hardware) – May 16, 2003
Those of us who are minority Mac users in Windoze workplaces rely on Office for Mac to survive. Just as I was prepared to cut Apple some slack over the delay to Leopard, so I’ll cut some to the MS Mac business unit to ensure the best possible product. They do a great job in what we can only assume is a hostile environment.
“@Micro Me
Those of us who are minority Mac users in Windoze workplaces rely on Office for Mac to survive.”
Absolutely. I need Microsoft Office at work, not iWork, NeoOffice, or Joe’s Office Suite, ….. Microsoft Office. The ability to run MS Office was one of the things that helped push me to the Mac.
My old Office 2004 runs OK on my iBooks but drags on the Intel Mini. I guess I can deal with it a few more months. But we do need a native version of MS Office, not some open source garbage a bunch of 13 year olds built in a Junior High class .
Can anyone tell me if there’s a simple OS X alternative to MS Access? This is a stumbling block to making a switch in our office to Macs and I REALLY hate Access. Talk about unintuitive and hard to use, sheesh!
I’m looking forward to a native Office. My Office 2004 works fine on my MBP though. I can wait as the alternatives don’t appeal to me: iWork, OpenOffice, etc.
Check out Filemaker
Easy, easy, easy to use.