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Office Delayed, Too
turnitover writes "And you thought calling it 'Office 2007' was just to make it seem all future-like -- but according to eWEEK.com's Mary Jo Foley, turns out calling it is truth in advertising: Office 2007 won't ship until 2007. What does this mean for Microsoft and its reputation as a company that can eventually ship software? What will this mean for office managers who have to plan upgrades and budgets? Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?"
Really?
I didn't know it took so much work to update the logo. =o
What I find interesting is that Microsoft had so many large failures recently and yet they seem to manage to get away with them without too much negative press. Remember how the whole .NET platform was going to revolutionize the way computers worked? Quitely dropped. Their MSN ambitions, Windows on mobiles - both have performed well below expectations. And yet they rarely receive bad press in the mainstream. I guess as long as their two cash cows, Windows and Office, continue to deliver amazing profits, people will see them as successful, and repeated failures will be ignored.
Indeed... but remarking about lack of functionality that is hardly used by the OVERWHELMING majority is just trolling IMO.
Mind you, your remarks about 'only edit with FrontPage' were interesting... talk about lack of public standards and lock-in!
J.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
But nobody in the "real world" (ie outside of Geekshire) uses Open Document format, so who cares?