Survey: Office 2007 demand aided by server software

Microsoft's plan to drive Office adoption in big companies by linking the software to server-based products appears to be working.

More than 40 percent of 243 companies responding to one specific survey question plan to deploy Office 2007 within six months, Forrester Research reported Tuesday.

One major driver of Office 2007 demand is SharePoint Server, Microsoft's Web-based software for sharing and managing documents created with Office. Forrester says that 41 percent of the 233 companies that responded to a separate survey question plan to implement or upgrade SharePoint Server within six months.

Office XP: it keeps on ticking....

(Credit: Microsoft)

Also, the release of Office 2007 Service Pack 1 in December removed a hurdle keeping many companies from upgrading, Forrester says. Office 2007 has been available to businesses since November 2006.

Interestingly, the survey also showed that while 43 percent of companies surveyed already have Office 2007 installed, some 60 percent are still running Office XP, which hit the market way back in May 2001.

Forrester based its results on a survey of 259 "IT decision makers" at companies in North America, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

[Commander_Spock]

When Is The Inaugural Flight Of The CONCORDE - Again!

"Microsoft's plan to drive Office adoption in big companies by linking the software to server-based products appears to be working..."

"Noisy" (ERR) EXCEL ACHILLES WHEELS (oops... HEELS) will always be "Noisy" (ERR) EXCEL ACHILLES WHEELS (oops... HEELS). LOL. :-) :-) :-)

Here is an extract from a 1998 Lotus Development Corporation communication; "Re: Concerning the issues with 1-2-3 that are talked about in the documentation you gave me, most of the issues are related to converting files between older and newer versions of product and converting documents between Lotus and Microsoft. Anytime a file is saved backwards or saved with an older file format than the format the file was created under, such as saving a 1-2-3 , 97 file for Windows 95 into a WK1 format for DOS, then naturally we are expected to loose certain features due to technology and features that are present now that were not present 8 - 10 years ago. Similarly, if we try to convert a file from Lotus into Excel or Excel into Lotus, due to differences in the products not every feature will be converted perfectly with the file filters that are available. Both Lotus and Microsoft create similar spreadsheet programs; however, there are several differences in both programs and these differences will remain to distinguish the products apart. We do try to design conversion filters that will allow as much of the file formats as possible to be exchanged and converted without disrupting the actual file design and format.

In one of your letters you made mention of the @IRR and @ERR functions in the 1-2-3 product. By design the @IRR (notably "absent" in Open Office) will calculate the Internal Rate of Return; where the @ERR is used in conjunction with other formulas, posted was an "ERR" showing an error was received in the calculations. As far as I can see in the program I cannot find an @ERR function that will allow us to calculate an Economic Rate of Return"

FLY the "QUIETER" (CONCORDE) FOR FREE - FLY IBM's LOTUS "SYMPHONY". :-$ :-$ :-$

[Maclover1]

Lotus products

blow chunks. NO ONE WANTS THEM.

[Vegaman_Dan]

This is great news for Lotus users!

All twelve of them.

EOM

[MMC Racing]

Not just Sharepoint

Exchange 2007 is driving Office 2007 deployment also. It would be an interesting stat to see how many of those Office 2007 adoptions are on XP.