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Office 2007 Delayed Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clippy's-triumphant-return dept.

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."

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  1. cue the obligatory joke: by MrSquirrel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it should be called Office 2008?

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    1. Re:cue the obligatory joke: by SeaFox · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or Office Forever?

      That would save them from ever having to ship it.

    2. Re:cue the obligatory joke: by Wylfing · · Score: 4, Funny
      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."

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  2. Lost sales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Office Forever! by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    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 to redo the UI in Aero so it'll look cool under Vista, which is why their other project's a bit late, too.

  4. Re:Time to upgrade? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. Re:In other news... by alfrin · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are obviously missing a very important detail:

    Open Office 2.0.3
    Office 2007

    Seriously people, thats centuries outdated.

  6. Oops by Colin+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  7. Re:Gone are the days? by richdun · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  8. Re:What's in it that would make me want to buy it? by Planesdragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  9. Oh no's! by jrmiller84 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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