Truth in advertising
by Volker Weber
CNET reports:
As with Vista, Microsoft hopes to finish the code for Office 2007 this year and make it available to some large businesses by the end of December.
Office follows the Vista scheme. Hope to get it done this year, "ship" to large businesses with expiring Software Assurance, and deliver next year.
Office 2007. As in twothousandseven.
What is the biggest competitor for this product? OpenOffice? Nope. Former versions of Microsoft Office. The vast majority of Office users are on Office 97 and 2000. Some upgraded to 2003. However, there was hardly anything in 2003 worthwhile, unless you rolled out a fleet of Microsoft servers.
This time you get new file formats, and need to retrain your users. Good luck.
Tags: microsoft office vista 2007
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My experience since many many years: Large businesses in Germany deploy a version when the former version loses officially its support from the vendor ... This means Windows/Office 2007 will probably be productive in Germany not before 2011 in the field.
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