Mary Jo Foley is speculating that sales of Office 2007 may be outpacing sales of Windows Vista. According to Microsoft’s July Vista sales pronouncement, the software giant had sold 60 million copies of Vista. Although the Office team hasn’t been talking sales figures since the simultaneous launch of the two products, according to information shared during a recent briefing with certain members of the French tech press, Microsoft allegedly has sold 70 million copies of Office 2007 to date. A Microsoft spokesperson noted: “It’s not our policy to confirm the license figures.” Assuming the numbers are correct, and Microsoft hasn’t denied them, Office 2007 may be outselling Vista or at the very least, keeping up.
Are there any Neowinians out there who skipped Vista but couldn’t resist an upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Office?
News source: Mary Jo Foley's Blog
Are there any Neowinians out there who skipped Vista but couldn’t resist an upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Office?
News source: Mary Jo Foley's Blog
You mean your Company upgraded you to Office 2007 "Enterprise". As far as I'm aware that SKU is only available under Microsoft Volume Licensing. If you acquired under your schools MS Campus Agreement through Select Licensing, its probably with you until you graduate. I don't think you get perpetual licensing with it.
Right... so everyone on every internet forum on Earth that is posting detailed information about their problems with Vista is just doing it to spread FUD? I guess you also must believe that these people are all secretly in league with each other, like there's some kind of master plan to it all? Yes, it's sooo much fun to spend hours looking for help about Vista's numerous problems--that XP does not have--no wonder all the kids are jumping on the bandwagon.
Right... so everyone on every internet forum on Earth that is posting detailed information about their problems with Vista is just doing it to spread FUD? I guess you also must believe that these people are all secretly in league with each other, like there's some kind of master plan to it all? Yes, it's sooo much fun to spend hours looking for help about Vista's numerous problems--that XP does not have--no wonder all the kids are jumping on the bandwagon.
The only *numerous problems* I've seen are with regards to driver support, and *that* is on the hardware vendors, not Microsoft. As far as application (or even game) compatibility problems, *I* actually haven't had any. I have older hardware (most of it two years old or more) and a *very* eclectic mix of software, yet I have exactly zero compatibility complaints with either Vista *or* Office. I've seen this song and dance three times now (first with Windows 2000, then with XP, and now with Vista) as far as operating systems go, and each time a new Microsoft OS ships, the grumbling (mostly over drivers) renews itself. Also, *never mind* that there is very little of Windows XP in Vista (largely for reasons of operating-system stability) and *never mind* that quite a few software vendors continue to violate the strictures of proper coding of Windows applications and continue to add DLLs willy-nilly all over the boot drive (as well as including features uniquely for a specific non-Vista OS).
And I didn't say that *everyone* was spreading FUD about Vista; I merely said that FUD was being spread. Whether anyone likes it or not (and it's gotten Very Fashionable to be in the *not* category), Microsoft remains the 800-pound gorilla in both operating systems and applications (and in both cases is roundly despised for it, regardless of *how* it got there). I run Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 because they actually let me do what I want to do with less muss or fuss than *any* version of Windows XP (and that includes Media Center Edition 2005, which I upgraded from) and previous version of Office. OpenOffice? Doesn't include e-mail support (worse, it has file-compatibliity issues with WordPerfect documents, a sin that Office hasn't committed for the last three versions); I have it on my system because I write fan-fiction, and one particular Web site requires submissions be in OO's file format (however, I still use Word to do most of the heavy-lifting). Penelope (the open-source version of Eudora)? Not as polished as Outlook (worse, it lacks support for Cloudmark, my e-mail filtering plug-in for Outlook).
Based on my experiences, the Vista/Office one-two is as solid as it gets, and I recommend it without reservation.
As for 2007 not causing problems, I've seen quite a few with the new versions of Access and Outlook.
I'm not saying this is very accurate, but judging from browser usage from w3schools, Vista's share is 3.6%, compared to Linux with 3.4%, XP with 74.6%, and Macs with 4%. Win2K is at 6%.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Another site has similar stats for Vista.
1 Windows XP 83.36%
2 Windows 2000 3.87%
3 Mac OS X 3.71%
4 Windows Vista 3.66%
5 Linux 1.37%
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
This is other site gives Vista 3.75%, so judging from all three sites, it seems 3.5%-4.0% is probably what it is?
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.asp...e=Q&qpsp=33
I don't know why anyone would possibly want the retail version of Vista over the OEM. I would rather use a forum like this one for Windows support than call Microsoft.
Same thing here. Had Vista for 2 days. It blows major chunks, IMO!
Same thing here. Had Vista for 2 days. It blows major chunks, IMO!
Wow, a whopping two days to learn and explore vista, good thing it was a real in depth testing.
I can't even break in a pair of shoes in two days.
Job done, very very happy
Because free coasters are great. Thanks AOL.
You have absolutely no idea really do you ?? get a job in the real world and stop believeing what your teacher says
LMOA it is true, they taught (not teached, maybe they should do some more teaching on english and leave the computer teaching to people that have some sort of clue) him at school, we all klnow teachers know best when it comes to upgrading your software.
dude tell your teacher to get in touch with the real world, we all know what the say about teachers. those that can do, those that can't teach.
Yes I do 2003 and 2007.
2007 is definitely slower, plus they insist on trying to make things idiot proof (Like Vista) and just make things more and more unintuative.
Its take weeks just to get rid of that horrible font they use . e.g theres no way to apply the font setting to all views.
Useless
Last edited by GoatOfMendez on 17 Sep 2007 - 12:47
Office 2007 - Brilliant
Office 07 - Cannot live without...
Very little cracking needed on Office compared to Vista.
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