Posted on 06/20/2007 6:30:02 PM PDT by Salo
Microsoft is making Office 2007 its default productivity suite for system builders, less than five months after the suite's full-scale launch.
Say Goodbye to Office 2003
Microsoft will stop supplying (http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2007/06/18/3384613.aspx) OEM Microsoft Office 2003 from June 30, Microsoft exec Eric Ligman wrote yesterday on the company's blog for small businesses.
The declaration means that Microsoft partners without inventory of Office 2003 must ship Office 2007 from July onwards.
Microsoft is making a heavy push for Office 2007 and seems to be now using OEM partners in the vanguard for driving sales.
Previous editions of Office have sold relatively slowly during the last 10 years, with a sizeable percentage of the customer base clinging to increasingly out-dated editions. That's a problem for Microsoft, as it means a key product in its core business isn't growing as it should.
Office 2007 is relatively early in the Microsoft lifecycle, having officially launched in January following limited availability in November, while Office 2003 was launched in October 2003. The older product still enjoys mainstream product support (http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/) from Microsoft and partners, while also being well within its extended lifecycle support.
Customers on volume licensing agreements can still run Office 2003 by activating the downgrade rights in their contracts from Office 2007. OEM Microsoft Office does not have downgrade rights.
Microsoft is running a webcast (http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2007/06/15/3316782.aspx) on June 21 to explain licensing options to resellers for Windows, Office and Server products. ®
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Leftist? Yeah, but Richard Stallman et. al. produced the best programming editor in the world: Emacs.
“Just keep in mind a lot of this “free” software is backed by radical leftists”
Radical leftists and F500 corps both present a threat to a free America.
Whose imposing political correctness on the average Joe?
Big corporations.
Let’s use the product of the leftist to further our own agenda.
Awwwww.... Hey M$... How’s VISTA retail doing ?? LOL
Open office is useless crap.
It is free and you definately get what you pay for.
Open source software is a joke.
It’s free and worth every penny.
Yah, thought about all that stuff before installing Linux, but so far no compulsory popup ads featuring an all expenses paid trip to the Gulag came up to click on, so I suppose Ubuntu is still safe after only two days of using it ..........
No way I'm spending $400.
Not good.. Vista is ripoff priced, you got to be a fool to upgrade an existing pc from xp...
Can you give me any evidence at all that you have to buy a new copy to reinstall Office?
The worst thing that you would have to do is call for reauthorization.
Thankfully all of us aren't that easily bribed.
I couldn't believe how easy everything was to set up ... Ubuntu installed flawlessly, recognized and configured (most) of the hardware, has plug-n-play capability, and installing software apps not within the original .iso file was a snap to download and install. The only difficulty was inputting the WEP code to get my wireless network going, it didn't work at first .. so a little bit of internet research showed that it needed to have the word 'reserved' typed just before the WEP code. Kinda strange and arcane, but it worked like a charm after that .... been using Ubuntu on WiFi ever since, and doing so right now :)
Well if destroying US corporations is your intent you should be happy open source like Linux has not only done that to several but working on more every day.
I’m working on getting used to the differences in Office 2007 (home ‘puter). I’m still not sure where to find all of the editing stuff!!!
It looks good, though!
OK OK OK ... someone has an agenda in this thread. Thank goodness it isn’t me.
“Well if destroying US corporations is your intent you should be happy...”
And Microsoft hasn’t done that????
I am going to the dark side....
Screw microsoft....
Apple....
Some people just have too much money, apparently, and are in a hurry to give it to Microsoft.
OpenOffice.org works fine for me.
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