M$ Office Now Delayed Until 2007, Heads Roll
Reuters report that that new M$ Office, previously scheduled for October is now put back to 2007. It looks as well as if old Bill has got cheesed off with the abilities of his management to deliver, and has announced a wholesale managerial restructuring at M$
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Like MS ever releases anything on schedule?
Why should they?
Any competition for Office?
Any competition for Windows?
I didn't think so, we have no choice but to wait...
Alternatively, I downloaded OpenOffice, no more blood money for Redmond.
hell - I didn't get Office
hell - I didn't get Office 2003 until last year and even then only cuz they gave a free copy to all the Search Champs - hehehe. Don't imagine I'll update to Office 07 until about 2010.
the slower msft moves, the
the slower msft moves, the faster they allow their market share to erode and be captured by google, who seems to be in the business of moving very fast.
writely and G
Bad news for MS
Great news for Writely // Google
Open Office is definately taking share
everybody asks me what I use, when I tell them... they are really interested. We must have moved 50 companies to Open office and thunderbird and we all know there is a tipping point.
Next step Ubuntu and then can somebody point me to an open standards search engine with a non-paranoid culture?
who needs the pain of an upgrade?
Hey, it took me until last fall to upgrade to IE6. That was forced by an upgrade in the Platform SDK. If what you have works, upgrading is just a waste of time, energy and resources.
My combo:
dual xeon workstation, battery backed caching scsi raid subsystem on raid 10. umm, 550 MHZ, it flies.
NT4 Server Enterprise, Visual Studio 6.0, MS Office 95.
Yup, don't fix what ain't broke :)
I feel *no* need to put anything new on it.