Office 2007 Delayed Again

Tyler Too writes "Ars Technica reports that Microsoft Office 2007 has been delayed again, this time into early 2007. 'Based on internal testing and the beta 2 feedback around product performance, we are revising our development schedule to deliver the 2007 system release by the end of year 2006, with broad general availability in early 2007.' Tough bit of timing after this week's online preview of Office 2007."

cue the obligatory joke:

[MrSquirrel]

Maybe it should be called Office 2008?

Lost sales

[Anonymous Coward]

Dang, they're going to miss the 2006 holiday season. Now what should I ask for for Christmas???

Office Forever!

[Tackhead]

The release date of this office suite is "When it's done".

Anything else, and we mean anything else is someone's speculation. There is no date. We don't know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have "inside info", or there's some office suite news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know - they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period.

And yes, we know the office suite has taken a long time. There's no possible joke you could make about the office suite's development time that we haven't already heard. :)

Except the one about us having bought out 3D Realms [3drealms.com] to redo the UI in Aero so it'll look cool under Vista, which is why their other project's a bit late, too.

Office 2007 to be shipped in 2007?

[Nybble's Byte]

Imagine that. But maybe MS needs to hedge their bets in the future, like Windows Whenever or Windows WTF.

Re:Well at least..

[Anonymous Coward]

At this rate, if Microsoft is going to continue to license famous songs for their startup music, they should look at "Fly Like an Eagle"... time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin into the future ;)

Re:Time to upgrade?

[Anonymous Coward]

And in 91 more years you will be right back in style...

Re:MSFT sets the standard

[HoosierPeschke]

Works for Gentoo... but I suppose the version number is added after it's released...

Re:In other news...

[alfrin]

You are obviously missing a very important detail:

Open Office 2.0.3
Office 2007

Seriously people, thats centuries outdated.

Oops

[Colin Smith]

They discovered Open Office could still read the new file format. Decided to tweak it that little bit further.

 

Re:Gone are the days?

[richdun]

Don't worry, Battlefield 2042 will be out on time, so all hope is not lost for year names.

Re:In other news...

[mobby_6kl]

Open Office 2.0.3 was released today for the low low cost of NOTHING :)

And it sucks just as much as the previous version, so you won't miss anything by upgrading! ;P

Re:cue the obligatory joke:

[SeaFox]

Or Office Forever?

That would save them from ever having to ship it.

Re:What's in it that would make me want to buy it?

[Planesdragon]

mean, really! 99% of the users wouldn't use anything that isn't in Office 2000

Things that most users will use once they start using Word 2007:

* the new, smaller XML file format.
* Saving as XPS or PDF.
* Blogging.

For the first time in awhile, there's an office upgrade that's really worth getting.

Oh no's!

[jrmiller84]

I don't know if I can wait that long! My spreadsheets and word documents just aren't living up to their full potentiall!

/sarcasm

Re:cue the obligatory joke:

[Wylfing]

As Samuel Johnson said: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

Man, I read that as Samuel Jackson. "Depend on it, mother fucker. When a man knows he's gonna be hanged in a few weeks, it concentrates his mother fucking mind wonderfully."

Re:Time to upgrade?

[Waffle Iron]

Yeah, well, I still use EDIT.COM for MSDOS 6.22 for all my text-editing needs!

What a bunch of bloatware. Here's word processing the way it's meant to be done:

C:\> copy CON thesis.txt
_

Re:Geeze

[killjoe]

I wish people would not make fun of my favorite corporation. It's just not fair that ordinary people should critize or mock my favorite corporation. I mean sure they have a billion dollar marketing budget and all but how are they supposed to stand up to the abuse ordinary people on slashdot heap on them.

Thank god MS has people like you to stand up for them. What would they ever do without you defending them against the unwashed masses!.

BTW: My favorite corporation is maytag. I hang out at washing machine forums and defend maytag anytime anybody critizes them, says their products are not that good, or mocks them.

I think people who critize corporations are so sad. They probably still live in their mothers basement or something. If they were adults they too would adopt a corporation and defend them valiently on public forums. Too bad there are not more people like you and me.

Re:My First Experience with OpenOffice

[killjoe]

Can I work for you? I promise never to disagree with you or tell you something you don't want to hear. I just want you to send me to japan where I can drink and sing karaoke all night and get paid for it.

Re:Time to upgrade?

[WuphonsReach]

C:\> copy CON thesis.txt

Why not use...

A:\> copy CON prn

Re:Time to upgrade?

[Skim123]

Cripes! I take it you've not seen those ads with people wearing dinosaur heads [microsoft.com]? That convinced my team to upgrade.