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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Who buys this stuff? Open Office is free folks. Does the same thing.
Office 2000 does more than what I need. Heck Office ‘97 does a great job with much less feature bloat. I see no reason to blow $450 on the latest, perhaps not the greatest incarnation.
Don't get me started on Vista, though...
I have and use it, too, but if you think it’s as good as MS Office, I’ve got to disagree with you. I think Office is the one great thing MS does. And it’s even better on a mac.
http://www.openoffice.org/ downloads for free and is free to use. I will be damned if I make the richest geek in the world any richer.
Just remember to turn off the Java runtime environment.
Tools->options->OpenOffice.org->Java->uncheck Use a Java runtime environment.
Unless you have the patience of Job, then have at it. :-)
I upgraded from Office 97 to Office 2007 and haven’t had any trouble. It takes a little getting used to and some of the features are in less than intuitive places. But that’s a quick learning curve. I bought my copy of Office 2007 (Home/Student Version) for $149 at Office Max. It allows 3 legal installs using the same product key. So far, so good.
What annoys me is the fact that if your computer fails (Vista Cough!) 3 times you have to buy a new copy.
Tell me about it ... been trying to get a Linux installation on my laptop for weeks now, and finally succeeded two days ago (Ubuntu 7.04). I'm a newbie to Linux and don't know a darn thing about it, but from what I've seen with it so far, this OS is the Cats A$$ :)
The wonderful thing is also that its free, as well as most of the fully functional applications available, which from what I've seen so far rival any of the Windoze apps that ya have'ta pay for
Just keep in mind a lot of this “free” software is backed by radical leftists, like “the father of free software” Richard Stallman, www.stallman.org.
Yeah, I’ve played with Ubuntu. My next computer will probably use that and Mozilla Firefox. I love it as a browser.
Can you run Office 2007 with XP? Somebody had told me that you needed Vista to make O2007 work.
Having said that, the trial version of Office 2007 cannot be uninstalled and it causes you to go catatonic and eat methadone and ultimately cough up big bucks.
Yes, Office 2007 runs with XP. I have it on my XP Pro machine at work.
Windows 2k7 is simply a huge memory hog. It has a new interface that isn’t bad, but like any change, will cause problems.
Worse of all, people who save docs in native 07 format will not be read by previous editions of Word, etc. That’s M$’s way of getting everyone to buy this new, higher-priced stuff.
Open Office runs on all sorts of flavors of Window$ and is supplied by those commies at Sun (no wait, aren't those Sun guys somehow in cahoots with M$ and the oil companies to make windfall profits?). This is all so confusing.
“Just keep in mind a lot of this “free” software is backed by radical leftists, like “the father of free software” Richard Stallman, www.stallman.org.”
Yeah, and VW used to be made by Hitler’s guys. I’m proud to say that I’ve reclaimed the name for the good guys.
The Mercedes is on the list too.
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