Comments on: Microsoft delays Office 2007 again

Tells people they'll have to wait longer than thought for the update to the productivity tools.

[kamwmail-cnet1]

There's no delay. OpenOffice 2.0 handles everything.

It does the same thing as MS Office. Has the general "office" interfaces of MS and Lotus. And it's encryption is tougher than MS. And it's out now and it's FREE. Best of all, it doesn't send private info from your PC to MS.

[catch23]

Really? I use a lot of Automation

and COM interfaces into Office. Can I just put OO in and have it work? (the answer is, of course, no).
I have a lot of complex documents (Word docs with embedded Excel pulling data from ODBC sources). Can it handle that? (again, no; at least not without basically recreating the doc)

OO is a great program. I use it at home. If you just need a type writer, your insane to pay for Office. But please don't make claims that are blatantly false.
Also, Office doesn't send data from my PC to MS either. Even WGA called home to read info from home, not send info to it. Just another lie to prop up your ignorant bigotry.

[ServedUp]

How Accountable are they?

Nothing new.

But does anybody really care anymore?

Truth is how accountable are they? Not only for their product
releases but for their cutsomers and for the industry in general.

Their clearly not being an industry leader at all and this article
proves it. And Steve Ballmer has the audacity to call themselves
innovative.

But...

On the upside atleast they have flip3d and gadgets.. lol

[metsrok]

Re: How accountable are they?

I don't understand you people that complain about how Microsot never delievers on time; if they don't deliever on time, you complain. If they do and there are bugs, you complain. I'd much rather wait a few more weeks for a good product than use a shoddy product just so they can ship on time.

Get over it, it's a large company with large products that have large ship cycles.

[befuddledms]

why does MS use years in their product names?

Why do they continually use a projected year for a new release of their products. They should just call it MS Office TBD.

[mystereojones]

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[Eggs Ackley]

Someone please post ...

... if you were counting on this release and explain why you're disappointed by the delay. {-O

[kamwmail-cnet1]

More Like NO ONE is counting on this release.

So no one was disappointed.

Microsoft hasn't come up with a must have Office release for half a decade now. In fact, the newer releases gets more complicated to do the same thing. And the spreadsheet/doc file sizes gets larger for no apparent reason.

[Captain_Spock]

"if you were counting on this release..."

... absolutely not; a review of both OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 and the Online Version of MS Office has indicated that their developers have of late now decided to talk with the "financial" folks and they have hurried to replace the formulas that they both might have overlooked when they were "copying" from Lotus SmartSuite. Now, what happens to the users who do not have a clue about the meaning and relevance of terminologies such as Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Net Present Value (NPV), Discounted Cash Flow Rate Of Return (DCFROR)...; and, how many users will be utilizing these newly integrated formulas. Now, also add the time (of the learning curves) and the cost of training for this product (MS Office) roll-out!!! Lastly, the big question is - when will developers from Open Office.org and Microsoft sit down with the "international financial and economic folks" regarding the integration of the functionalities for the conversion to Economic Rate of Return (ERR) not that they have (the developers from those companies in question) come to understand the values of the former (IRR, NPV, DCFROR...)! Maybe I may be in a better position to six months from now if updates by then fulfill current limitations!