Mac users must wait until next year for fresh versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as Microsoft moves its intended launch of Office for Mac 2008 to January from the second half of this year.
"We had hoped to hit the Christmas selling season, but now we hope to target Macworld (in January)," said Craig Eisler, who became general manager of the Mac business unit at Microsoft six weeks ago. "We as a group were not satisfied with product quality."
Details about any software development snags, as well as final pricing, were unavailable. Office for Mac 2004 is sold in three flavors at between $150 and $500.
The company demonstrated early previews of Office for Mac 2008 at the Macworld 2007 convention in January. Microsoft will not open beta testing to the public as it did for more than six months while building Office 2007 for Windows.
The 2008 release will be the first built for Intel-based Macs. The features and visual style of Office for Mac software differ from their Windows counterparts. Microsoft is introducing XML-based file formats, which require a converter to be opened in older Office software. A time-management, task-launching widget joins Office for Mac 2008 in addition to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the Entourage e-mail application.
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"We had hoped to hit the Christmas selling season, but now we hope to target Macworld (in January)," said Craig Eisler, who became general manager of the Mac business unit at Microsoft six weeks ago. "We as a group were not satisfied with product quality."
Details about any software development snags, as well as final pricing, were unavailable. Office for Mac 2004 is sold in three flavors at between $150 and $500.
The company demonstrated early previews of Office for Mac 2008 at the Macworld 2007 convention in January. Microsoft will not open beta testing to the public as it did for more than six months while building Office 2007 for Windows.
The 2008 release will be the first built for Intel-based Macs. The features and visual style of Office for Mac software differ from their Windows counterparts. Microsoft is introducing XML-based file formats, which require a converter to be opened in older Office software. A time-management, task-launching widget joins Office for Mac 2008 in addition to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the Entourage e-mail application.
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And this, just when they were doing SO well with a beta of Remote Desktop Connection.
And really, who wants to buy software twice, once for each platform?
And this, just when they were doing SO well with a beta of Remote Desktop Connection.
Your comments get more annoying everytime I see them. You're nowhere near as funny as you think you are. I'm not even a huge Mac fan and your comment still annoyed me. Got any maturity?
Your comments get more annoying everytime I see them. You're nowhere near as funny as you think you are. I'm not even a huge Mac fan and your comment still annoyed me. Got any maturity?
Please try not to insult other users. You may not like or agree with them, but please watch what you say to someone else on here. This is on the boarder line...
Your comments get more annoying everytime I see them. You're nowhere near as funny as you think you are. I'm not even a huge Mac fan and your comment still annoyed me. Got any maturity?
It's called having a sense of humor. You might want to look into getting one.
Your comments get more annoying everytime I see them. You're nowhere near as funny as you think you are. I'm not even a huge Mac fan and your comment still annoyed me. Got any maturity?
It's called having a sense of humor. You might want to look into getting one.
Saying what someone says is annoying isn't "funny" so what does a sense of humor have to do with anything?
Adobe had to port over their entire suite to Xcode just as well. Which must have been a lot harder if only looking at the quantity of applications it contains, let alone the addition of new features.
As far as I'm concerned the only reason why it's taking Microsoft this long to push Office 2008 out the door is because the project is heavily understaffed. Not because they decided to revamp the interface of a word processing, spreadsheet, keynote and email/calender application.
Pip'
This really doesn't have the ribbon like Office 2007 did... it will be a subset of it to match the Mac look...
There's NeoOffice.
There's the current version of Office for Mac.
There's the Windows version to run in under BootCap.
Or you could just wait.
There are so many other options.
Apple users (like me) who take shots at MS for developing poorly-designed software and who cheer when a Mac vs. PC commercial comes on have absolutely no justification for complaining when they're late with software for our platform.
Office:Mac is pretty much a slow, bloated POS. Hooray for crashes!
I'd rather not have to close down all my apps and reboot just to work on office documents. If I wanted to run Windows on my Mac, I'd just get a PC.
Oh, sure, just waiting sounds great. I'll tell my boss that none of my projects will be completed until Jan 08!
So I'd say complaining is justified.
Why does your boss not just fire you and look for someone who is willing to use whatever software is available to get the job done (whether it is Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows)? I think the more creative people are those that work through road blocks rather than waiting for everyone to solve them for him or her.
I'm not sure why my post inspired such an angry rant from you... It was supporting MS Office
Microsoft is up the shitter with you boys for this move....
But Apple is all in the clear, and in THEIR RIGHTS as a company to pull the iPhone battery crap... SEE the article above this one.
VMWare Fusion + Unity
Why not look for native ports of applications that are supported like (Neo, O.O., Nisus) and support those with your time and money?
http://www.tuaw.com/photos/office-2008-for...ac-screenshots/
The MacBU should be teaching the rest of their MS Office peers how to utilize what MS's design team is capable of.
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