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02-08-2007, 10:32 PM
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Beware the Robot Mafia
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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[Merged] Office 2008 delayed until Jan 2008
What a bummer 
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...8-for-mac.html
Apparently nothing in particular was wrong with Office 2008, it was just very rough and they have to tidy it up, which will take a couple of months. *sigh* |
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02-08-2007, 10:53 PM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Well... there must have been a reason for Microdick to have named it Office 2008, no?
But with Leopard's Time Machine...
... we can go back to Microsoft Word 5.1.
... if we had Leopard, that is |
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02-08-2007, 11:22 PM
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The Nth Doctor
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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I should be disapointed, but truth be told I haven't opened anything but Excel in the last couple of months. If iWork comes out with a spreadsheet app, that - as they say - would be that.  |
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02-08-2007, 11:24 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Office 2008 delayed until Jan 2008
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Right on time, I'd have thought. Unusual for Micro$oft, though...
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03-08-2007, 06:00 AM
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Account Disabled
Group: Inactive
Location: UK - AUS - NZ
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Office 2008 being released in 2008? Thats false advertising that is!!  |
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03-08-2007, 06:37 AM
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Super
Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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when was the last time M$ met a deadline for a mac product. Not surprised at all
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03-08-2007, 06:38 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Nedlands, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ClockWork
But with Leopard's Time Machine...
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Hey, maybe we could use Time Machine to go forwards to January 2008...
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03-08-2007, 08:09 AM
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Pork Hunt
Group: Regulars
Location: Perth
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Originally Posted by iSlayer
when was the last time M$ met a deadline for a mac product. Not surprised at all
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When was the last m$ met a deadline period - anyone remember when longhorn was really meant to be released.
If they cant get their own crappy software out on time what chance to mac users have of seeing m$ product on time?
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03-08-2007, 08:15 AM
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Super
Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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Originally Posted by jeremy_warnock
When was the last m$ met a deadline period?
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True but even apple are missing deadlines these days. I dont know why companies even bother announcing release dates well before products are completed. |
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03-08-2007, 08:19 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Nedlands, WA
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Originally Posted by iSlayer
T.... I dont know why companies even bother announcing release dates well before products are completed.
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Because it significantly slows the sales of competitors' products - customers want the latest-and-greatest, which they now know is just around the corner, and so they are willing to wait or, amazingly, to place and pay for orders in advance. It's basic marketing.
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03-08-2007, 09:15 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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what competitors?! all it does is slow their own sales which means less people running 2004 that would have to upgrade to 2008 or be stuck with an old product on intel machine. in most cases i would agree but in this case, not really.
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03-08-2007, 09:22 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Nedlands, WA
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Originally Posted by macmate
what competitors?! all it does is slow their own sales which means less people running 2004 that would have to upgrade to 2008 or be stuck with an old product on intel machine. in most cases i would agree but in this case, not really.
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You are providing a specific (counter)example to refute an answer that was offered to answer a more general question.
Announcing a release date, even if a company might have no guarantees of meeting it, has become an industry practice. A lazy populist media, far happier to transcribe press releases than it is to actually investigate and review an IT product, fuels the practice.
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06-08-2007, 05:00 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Mildura, Vic.
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Office 2008 for Mac delayed
We announced today that Office 2008 for Mac will be released to manufacturing (RTM) this December, which will allow for retail availability in the US in mid-January (planning for Macworld), and allow us to deliver Office 2008 to our volume license customers and global customers in the first quarter of 2008.
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08-08-2007, 06:14 PM
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Not so serious ;)
Group: Administrators
Location: Fukuoka, Japan (originally Canberra)
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Nice...long enough for me not to bother, considering Numbers has just been released.
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08-08-2007, 06:17 PM
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Member
Group: Regulars
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Yep Apple must be stoked - I'm thinking of dumping Office for iWork if the spreadsheet is ok.
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