Shocking! Microsoft Office 2007 delayed again

See, Dave, I'm a confirmed Mac user myself, both personally and professionally, and I love my Microsoft Office. Honestly, I've never really had a problem with Microsoft's application divison - only the operating systems group. I never really minded MS Office back when I did use Windows, but now that I'm on a stable, usable OS, I've found that I really like Office.

I'd much rather see Office 2k7 delay (again) than see them rush something useless and buggy to market with the necessary or promised features (a la XP/Vista).

But, then, that's just my 2¢.

I can understand that. I think my struggle is more related to how I might upgrade 60 users at my office and if it's really worth it. Ubiquity aside, there are aspects of MS apps that are simply not available from other vendors, but I'm still holding out for an OSS replacement. It's a business opportunity as well as a potential win for users.

Hello!

Office 2007 is big big upgrade - so I don't care
about delay (I still use Word 2000 with SP3 - no significant changes in Word XP and 2003 for me).

For example here is one reason for delay:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=208537

And take a look here (new Equation Editor is great and support linear format)

http://www.shitalshah.com/blog/Office2007OnTheRide.aspx

Cheers, Roman

I think they might use delay as a marketing too somehow.
But at least I hope they could make less buggy this time. My Office with Mac is working preety good but not for the office 2003. It feels kind of heavy even with good system.

By the way, do you want to find out if you are a workaholic?

I found one recently
It is kind of personality , behavior test kind of thingy. It is sort of quiz.

http://ibtimes.com/bizquiz/

I am a workaholic according to the result. :(
Have fun guys.

I wouldn't hold your breath for an OSS Office replacement anytime soon. At least not one on-par with MS Office.

As for alternatives, however, if you haven't tried Apple's iWork, I'd highly recommend it. I do prefer using Pages (Apple's word processing in iWorks solution) for some uses. But, then, it is typical Apple. Very flashy, nice eye candy, very presentation focused, with a layout-centric approach - but a little light on the features and functions. But not *that* light. It's more that usable, and is interoperable with MS Word and PDF formats. Also, I consider Keynote far superior to PowerPoint for making presentations with impact, even though it lacks a little of PowerPoint's versatility.

We are using Open Office as our primary office environment for 200 plus users. One of the best things about it is that it can PDF documents and presentations for distribution. We use this feature all the time. Combatibility with Microsoft office remains an issue, especially for advanced formating in Writer or for complex models in Calc. In addition, we chose to use an oursourced email provider (Bluetie) which allows us to use Thunderbird for our email client and we use Firefox for browsing. We have dramatically reduced our desktop software costs. Now if only we could do something about third party financial services web sites that require us to use Internet Explorer for security purposes...

You have to love the fact that banks (and others) force IE for security.

Tom--we should have you guys do a case study on your enterprise. I know you all have so much free time :>

Now, I can honestly only speak to my experience here, but... I spent several years as a senior leader in eCommerce development a top 5 U.S. bank, and we never coded anything to be IE-only. We were always focused on being platform-independant and technology agnostic.

That got even worse about five years ago, when there were a rash of ADA-fueled lawsuits filed against US banks for website inaccessability. When last I checked, the number one QA priority in the internet development space was disabled accessability - which, interestingly enough, tends to lead to portability.